4 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 5)
RETRIBUTION's leader revealed; Rollins' listless journey continues.
Can one shocking swerve make up for a lacklustre episode that continually disappoints? In short, no.
Raw continued to be a muddled mess of logic gaps, stuck-in-the-mud storylines, poor booking and just general malaise. It had the occasional flash of competence, but the spark just isn’t there. It’s really sad when you start longing for the WWE Draft, just to shake things up a bit and have some fresh matchups for the first time in six months.
Monday night featured yet another instalment of the Hurt Business squaring off against Ricochet & Apollo Crews, but for the first time in what feels like aeons, the Street Profits did not face Andrade & Angel Garza, though Garza’s injury probably had more to do with that than progressive booking.
The Seth Rollins/Mysterio Family saga continued, with Murphy finally lashing out at his Messiah, though by this point the entire storyline has dragged on for so long that it’s difficult to care at all about any development.
Lastly, RETRIBUTION unveiled its leader, and he probably wasn’t on anyone’s shortlist. Is that a good thing? Who knows? But it’s something, and it could lead somewhere. And that, unfortunately, is what qualifies as a positive development on Raw these days.
Until next week, when Raw hopefully gets (figuratively) blown up by the draft and rebooted, let’s get to it…