3 Ups & 12 Downs From WWE Raw (May 31)

6. These Are The Babyfaces?!?

Ricochet Humberto Carrillo
WWE.com

WWE is so incompetent that they think Ricochet and Humberto Carrillo are babyfaces, despite the fact that they’re acting like complete heels and jerks.

Both men defeated United States Champion Sheamus in back-to-back nontitle matches on Monday night with the help of the other. Ricochet and Humberto distracted Sheamus in each other’s match, allowing the other to score a rollup pin… because nothing screams “babyface” quite like winning a match off a distraction.

At the same time, WWE has managed to completely cool off Sheamus, who was on an absolute roll with high-quality matches every week for a couple of months this spring. Now, he’s mired in a go-nowhere feud against two jobbers who can’t even be competitive unless they get outside help. They almost had something with Carrillo, but that got scuttled in the mix.

This company was literally handed a red-hot Sheamus having his best matches in years, made him their secondary champion, and then dropped the ball… because this company sucks. Period.

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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.