4 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (June 14)

4. Lather, Rinse, Repeat

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Why bother having different agents setting up matches if you’re going to just going to use the same lazy crutches repeatedly?

Four times during matches on Raw, someone came out mid-match and headed to ringside (one match had two different pairs head to the ring!). Now, they didn’t all interfere, but they all factored into the action. Only one of these matches had a truly clean finish. Two of the matches saw the individuals who came to the ring get involved in an immediate follow-up match, because WWE doesn’t actually book the entire show, just enough to fill most of it, and then stuff like that fills the gaps.

Can we just get a week where WWE doesn’t lean heavily on the same booking tropes repeatedly? While we all know Raw is often rewritten and booked on the fly, it would be nice it if didn’t actually feel like it was booked on the fly like this.

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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.