4 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 4)

1. Raw Phones It In

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A lot of these “downs” touch on different aspects of it, but there’s no way to sugarcoat it: Raw felt like it was phoned in Monday night.

The matches varied from “meh” to decent. Some might say that decent wrestling shouldn’t be a negative, but when you’re the biggest wrestling company in the world with the most talented roster at your disposal, “decent” should be the floor, not the ceiling.

Angles drifted along toward Crown Jewel, but a lot of stuff seemed in a holding pattern, which makes sense due to the draft. But that resulted in a dull episode, with the superstars seemingly knowing that nothing really mattered and going through the motions in their matches.

It just made for a very blah show which is not what you want when you’re trying to be competitive against Monday Night Football and other wrestling programming.

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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.