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

3. Ciampa The Flunky

Ciampa The Miz
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The list of superstars who have partnered with the Miz and achieved greatness can fit on a postage stamp. But the list of talented wrestlers who played second fiddle to the reality star continues to grow.

Add Ciampa to the list, who has become Miz’s latest flunky. It seemed like maybe he was aligning himself with the A-lister simply to get more attention, and that would have been an interesting wrinkle: if Ciampa didn’t really care about Miz, just his clout.

However, Ciampa did little things to defuse that theory, covering Miz’s ears and yelling at fans to stop chanting that he has tiny balls, and later comforting Miz after the match and eating a Phenomenal Forearm while the Awesome One fled.

We’ll see if this course-corrects at all, but this just gave off vibes of a one-man Miztourage, and that’s a terrifying feeling.

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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.