3 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec 7)

1. Meaningless Main Event

Bray Wyatt Randy Orton
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Oh no, Bray Wyatt turned into the Fiend when the lights went out! What will Randy Orton ever do? Wait, Orton is the heel here? Are we sure? But also, haven’t we seen this before? We have, ah, OK.

We just keep chugging along with a paint-by-numbers feud that is dull and (so far) purposeless. Is anyone really looking forward to Orton/Fiend at TLC? If they were, this match should disabuse them of that notion. The match was dull and predictable, with Orton seemingly on the verge of winning after hitting an RKO before the lights went out and the Fiend replaced Bray.

Unless their TLC match ends with Fiend absolutely murking Orton, this will be a disappointing match at best, and another Orton insomnia-buster at worst.

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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.