10 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE TLC 2018

4. Bickering Announcers

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The entire Renee Young saga has got to stop.

We get it: Young is Dean Ambrose’s wife, and she’s clearly withholding information from her colleagues and the fans during Raw and PPVs. But Corey Graves’ constant nagging her, which initially was the kind of reality check chiding that was needed, reached new lows Sunday.

Graves and Young spent a good portion of the match bickering back and forth, with Corey trying to pry information from her, then needling Renee until Michael Cole had to remind them that there was an Intercontinental Championship match going on in the ring.

It’s the kind of the thing that you don’t want: the announcers detracting from the match. And yet, that’s exactly what we got. Someone needs to figure this out and wrap this little saga up, because it can’t continue for much longer without this writer reaching for the mute button.

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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.