4 Ups & 4 Downs For WWE Raw (27 Oct - Results & Review)
Downs…
4. Dom Doesn’t Learn
Someone really should teach WWE wrestlers about company tropes to avoid… or at least encourage them to watch the product to pick up on these things.
One of WWE’s favorite crutches is booking a number one contender’s match for a title, and then the heel champion causes a disqualification, believing that this clearly means that with no singular top contender, they won’t have to defend the title. And every time, the authority figure simply books a triple threat to stick it to the heel.
Literally, every time.
Naturally, Dominik Mysterio doesn’t watch WWE programming, so he enlisted Los Americanos to interfere in the Penta/Rusev match on Monday night, forcing a DQ, which Raw GM Adam Pearce turned into a triple threat at Saturday Night’s Main Event.
It ruined a perfectly good match between the two, which was trending toward a really hot finish when the masked luchadores attacked. Dominik looked like every dumb heel champion who thought he outsmarted the GM, only to be outdone by Pearce. And if we’re picking nits, the interference was ill-timed, coming after both men had hit alternative finishers, which could have ended the match. Why not attack straight away to ensure the double-DQ, if that’s the end goal?
Just book better. No one comes out of this looking smart or strong. But as will be explained later, that might be the point.