10 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 5)

3. Part-Timers Already On Vacation

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Quick, identify some of the wrestlers who had the biggest moments of WrestleMania XXXII Sunday? Brock Lesnar, Undertaker, Triple H, John Cena, Rock, Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels Mick Foley and Roman Reigns. Only Reigns showed up Monday night.

The others all did their part to increase Mania€™s €œstar power,€ and then faded to the background. Sadly, these guys (save for Triple H and Taker) all got put over full-time performers like Dean Ambrose, the League of Nations and the Wyatt Family. Those guys (save for Ambrose) showed up to work on Raw. The part-timers must be on vacation.

And look, those legends and Hall of Famers add a great deal to the product when they€™re here. And they are major stars who shouldn€™t be made to look like chumps. But to have this group go over several main roster stars at the biggest show of the year and then vanish the next night is just baffling.

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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.