4 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Sep 7)

2. Raw Underground Resolves Nothing

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It looks like WWE is trying to solve one of its biggest problems with Raw Underground, but they aren’t actually solving anything.

One of the biggest shortcomings with WWE’s version of Fight Club is that there are no stakes other than just trying to prove yourself in a no-holds-barred atmosphere. There’s no title, no prize, no real determination of who is doing well, because it’s tough to follow week to week.

So to add some stakes, they had Kevin Owens and Aleister Black take their budding feud inside Raw Underground, where they fought throughout the 10pm hour in multiple segments. They basically brawled with a lot of punches, takedowns, and MMA-style submissions and mat-fighting.

But then, Dabba-Kato reappeared to attack both men, laying them out with slams and ending the fight with no resolution. And thus Raw Underground was rendered meaningless, as we got mediocre brawling and no winner.

That’s not exactly the sort of thing you’re looking for here.

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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.