10 Live Observations From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 35
4. High And Dry
For the third time in four nights, WWE fans found themselves in the preeminent presence of Ricochet and Aleister Black.
The recent NXT graduates were the workhorses of the WWE weekend - credit to them for nearly killing themselves against The War Raiders Friday Night when they were expected to still be putting a shift in against Bobby Roode and Chad Gable 72 hours later - but enough was decidedly enough for Brooklyn as the duo were quietly quelled by Raw’s drab second hour.
It speaks to their popularity the fans came alive for their comeback at all, not least after the first signs of a self-directed protest appeared to form with the bored instigations of a Mexican Wave. Ricochet is a potentially beautiful addition to the main roster, and his powers were at play here - the Brooklyn audience tried a couple of times to keep the wave alive, but the ‘One And Only’ was fittingly the only one to curb this irritating lack of enthusiasm.
The match, pragmatically speaking, wasn’t really what the audience wanted by the time they were offered it, but the wrestlers tried hard to make it so. Bobby Roode’s post-match attack generated a modicum of heat too, but unless he was the one with his finger on the dreaded spotlight’s off switch, he had no chance being actually despised.