2 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (May 23)

by Scott Carlson

1. Giving Riddle Newfound Purpose

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After playing the goof for his entire run, we finally got to see a different side of Riddle Monday night.

Gone were the flying flops, CGI doves and stoner comedy. All we saw was a man looking for vengeance for his fallen comrade, Randy Orton. Riddle said Randy had been battling a bad back for some time and had been knocked out of action for some time, which could spell the end of RK-Bro, at least for the time being.

Riddle used that venom to his advantage, swearing revenge on the entire Bloodline, and then attacking the Usos throughout the six-man tag match, looking borderline unhinged in jumping the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions in the aisle and randomly during the match.

If RK-Bro is on hiatus for a bit while Riddle works his way through the Bloodline to get revenge, that’s a perfectly good side quest for the Original Bro, and Orton’s injury should fire him up appropriately.

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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.