3 Ups & 11 Downs From WWE Raw (Jan 18)

by Scott Carlson

1. McIntyre To Return

Let’s state this upfront: When one of the very few positive things you have to highlight about Raw is an announcement that Drew McIntyre will be on next week’s Raw, you have a really bad episode.

But yet, we have to be excited that the WWE Champion will apparently be cleared to return to TV next week after being diagnosed with COVID and missing two episodes in person. And not having your world champion in the arena for two weeks in the buildup to the second-biggest PPV of the year is a pretty bad blow. It also doesn’t help that McIntyre is a pretty consistent performer, and the last couple of shows have been pretty deficient.

Here’s hoping Drew can help level the ship, because Raw has been on a nosedive recently, even more so than usual.

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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.