4 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (18 Nov - Results & Review)

2. Hitting Hard With A Sudden Stop

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Heading into Monday’s Intercontinental Championship match, one had to feel pretty confident that there wouldn’t be a definitive finish between Bron Breakker and Sheamus. The match materialized last week in a backstage confrontation and took place on a taped show, so a title switch wasn’t likely, and neither was blowing off what could be a PLE battle.

What fans got on Raw was what one would expect: a hard-hitting slugfest between two bruisers, with Sheamus as the grizzled warrior matching Bron the young lion strike for strike, counter for counter. The closest either man came to victory occurred when Sheamus rolled outside after a Breakker spear to save the match for himself.

That’s when Breakker set up for his race-around-ringside spear, only for Ludwig Kaiser to KO the IC champ, drawing a DQ. He peppered Bron and laid him out with a DDT, then dropkicked Sheamus into the steps to put him down.

Another Kaiser/Sheamus match isn’t high on anyone’s wish list – it’s been done to death – but having Ludwig take Gunther’s “be your own man” advice to heart and target the very title the Ring General previously held is a nice bit of business. Breakker has been portrayed as a bit of a tweener at times, so a turn as a situational babyface against Kaiser shouldn’t be too hard.

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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.