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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.