10 Live Observations From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 35
9. Splitting The Pops
Your writer was wrong all along about Seth Rollins. ‘The Beast Slayer’ may not always he the super-worker he aspires to be, nor truly embody the earnest promos he tries too hard to cut, but Brooklyn loudly confirmed how much he “deserved” to beat Brock Lesnar.
Rollins rocked Raw with his usual spiel before Kofi Kingston found new foundations to raise with an earth-shattering reaction. Kingston’s WrestleMania WWE Heavyweight Championship victory was a powerful and deeply evocative left turn for a company better known for trolling their audiences on the ‘Grandest Stage’ in recent years.
Kofi, Big E and Xavier Woods brought more fan service with a Winner-Take-All battle planned for later in the show. E did the splits before he and Woods air guitared to Rollins’ theme right into the break.
It was...lovely. Somebody must have filled Jim Ross’ AEW-Brand cowboy hat with dog sh*t recently - Vince McMahon’s was in enough of a good mood that he didn’t even turn up at the end of the segment to replace it with something nobody wanted.
He let his wrestlers do that later in the show.