3 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (July 11)

Downs…

6. Bait And Switch… AGAIN

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What’s the point of WWE offering a preview of Raw, when the card is going to change every time?

This week, it was a planned match between Riddle and Theory, and a United States Championship open challenge that got combined into a tag match pitting Riddle & Bobby Lashley against Theory & Seth Rollins.

This isn’t to say anything about the match itself, but we’ve given WWE a pass on this negative for a while now, and it’s time to call them out for the constantly changing card. Yes, “card subject to change," but this isn’t due to injury, it’s due to the maniacal whims of a deranged geriatric owner.

Again, why bother even offering a preview? Just say, “Tune in, sh*t will happen!” At least that would be mostly true. And this doesn’t even include two matches announced at the outset of Raw changing mid-show.

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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.