4 Ups & 4 Downs For WWE Raw (27 Oct - Results & Review)

3. Oblivious To A Fault

While this column has already leveled criticism against WWE for falling back on its trope of booking a disqualification in the Intercontinental Championship number one contender’s match, there needs to be an exception for the antics of Dominik Mysterio.

Yes, Dirty Dom looked stupid for sending Los Americanos to interrupt the match between Penta and Rusev, but that’s the point. Mysterio is an aloof goober of a wrestler, oblivious to reality and consequences. He waltzed into the Judgment Day clubhouse and quickly dismissed all his stablemates’ problems and instead insisted that everyone help solve his issues. And he didn’t foresee Raw GM Adam Pearce simply booking a triple threat if neither Penta nor Rusev won their match.

Mysterio might be getting definitive cheers from fans, but he still clearly is a conniving, cheating heel (his insistence to Raquel Rodriguez that he had “never cheated a day in my life” was fantastic). Of course, he’d be dumb enough to cause a DQ that lands him in a triple threat to defend his title.

It’s still a stupid booking trope, but at least you can twist a positive about Dominik out of it.

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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.