8 Ups And 4 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 3)

By Scott Carlson / April 4, 2017

7. Neville, Ali Light It Up

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Aside from the raucous crowd getting distracted by beach balls (no, seriously), Neville and Mustafa Ali gave fans plenty of reason to pay attention to their match Monday night.

Ali challenged the WWE Cruiserweight Champion and took him to the brink, hitting him with a springboard Spanish Fly, reverse hurricanrana and a vicious satellite DDT. But Neville dodged an inverted 450 splash and got the tap-out win. It was a fast-paced match (save for when they slowed it down due to the beach ball distraction) that more closely resembled the kind of action older fans associated with cruiserweights.

Good stuff from Ali and Neville that drew in the fans despite themselves.

Authored by Scott Carlson

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.

First Posted On: 4th Apr 2017

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