3 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 37

6. Just Mercy Kill Riddle Already

Bobby Lashley Riddle
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Just 24 hours removed from losing his United States Championship in a hard-hitting match at WrestleMania, how do you think Riddle responded? Was it demanding a rematch? Was it buckling down and getting serious? Was it anything resembling how a normal person would react?

Of course not. Riddle rolled up on an arriving Bobby Lashley and congratulated him, joking around, while MVP and Lashley mocked him as a loser. Riddle challenged the WWE Champion, but that got lost in also talking about wearing a tinfoil hat because of aliens (but it turned out his braces were getting a radio station). Lashley then punked out Riddle and called him a loser.

Fast-forward to the match, in which the All-Mighty champion ran through the Original Bro in what amounted to an extended squash. Keep in mind that Riddle was a highly touted “get” for WWE a few years ago and tore up NXT until he came to Raw and was turned into an impotent idiot.

Please, just end this character. Send him away for a few months and try to reinvent him, because this is just depressing.

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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.