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

8. Staple Of Raw Vanishes

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For months, Raw has been inundated with segments featuring WWE’s version of fight club, Raw Underground. And suddenly, it has just up and vanished from TV. No fight club.

Yes, there is a very real-life reason why this has been put on pause: the global pandemic apparently has hit some developmental talent, rendering it impossible to continue with the Underground right now.

But think about how much of Raw has been tied up in this nonsensical segments/storylines. Raw Underground was pitched weekly as this hot new version of gritty combat, with in-ring rivalries being shuttled over to the rope-less ring.

And now… nothing. Welcome to 2020, folks.

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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.