4 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 5)

1. Messiah’s Fall From Grace

Can someone – anyone – remind the rest of us what Seth Rollins’ gimmick is?

The Monday Night Messiah burst onto the scene as some pseudo-cult leader, attracting a small following of wrestlers who were hellbent on remaking Raw in Rollins’ image. If he couldn’t be the babyface hero, he’d burn it all down.

Then Rollins set his sights on Rey Mysterio. That was five months ago. Rollins (and Murphy) and the Mysterio family have been locked in a never-ending feud since May, a rivalry that WWE has tried to pump life into it by interjecting first Rey’s son Dominik, and now his 19-year-old daughter Aalyah.

Monday, Rollins berated his disciple Murphy after the underling demanded that Seth apologize… to Aalyah. This led to the two to brawl and batter each other with a kendo stick. Seriously, we’ve been down this Mysterio-obsessed rabbit hole for so long now, is it even possible to reconnect the dots to the original purpose of the Monday Night Messiah?

We are just so far gone now. None of it makes any sense. They’re just fighting because there’s nothing else to do at this point. It’s not like it’s a great rivalry producing four-star matches every PPV. It just fills space and time. Seth has no purpose. He’s not reshaping Raw. He’s arguing with his disciple and tormenting the same family he’s been feuding with since the spring.