7 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (2 March - Results & Review)
4. Neutering The Vision
For nearly a year, The Vision has been a major focal point of WWE Raw, despite the group losing half of its members to injury and falling off from its original course. The stable is basically limping its way into WrestleMania 42.
Cue Seth Rollins and a host of masked decoys to do something that needed to be done a while ago: treat this stable like the seat-fillers that they’ve become.
After Paul Heyman, Austin Theory, and Logan Paul prattled on for a bit and Raw GM Adam Pearce tried to kick them out, a series of masked men appeared at ringside, drawing security, Theory, and then Paul to give chase to each of them, leaving Heyman alone. A fourth masked man appeared in the aisle, but it was a fifth man on the apron who unmasked as Rollins.
Seth then waffled Heyman with a chair and then stomped him into the mat. No protracted teases or long monologues, dragging this out for weeks. Second night back, wham! Heyman was being loaded up in an ambulance.
And to add a bit of that old Crash TV mentality, Theory tried to get in a truck, only to be attacked by Jimmy Uso, who laid Austin out, then turned to the ambulance driver, LA Knight. The Megastar drove off with Heyman still in the back.
Once you got through the droning from The Vision, things really got into that perpetual motion mode, constantly moving and not slowing down. Five masked men! Heyman laid out! Jimmy and LA teaming up to stick it to the group that had run roughshod over Raw for so long.
It’s hard to say whether any of this was actually any good. But it was chaotic, and that made it more exciting than it normally would be. This gets positive marks on the strength of the chaos and that stuff actually happened, and that The Vision actually looked like they had been seriously knocked off the rails, like the goobers they are.