4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Jan 24)

3. How Do You Spell Entertaining?

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The academic challenge between Alpha Academy and RK-Bro might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but this writer thoroughly enjoyed it Monday night.

Credit has to go to Chad Gable, who is really channelling his inner-Kurt Angle in dressing down the crowd while talking up his intelligence and athletic ability. And after he spent a good while running down the Ohio fans, Gable was the one who flubbed a word in the spelling bee, misunderstanding “disillusion” for “dissolution.”

Throw in Riddle making his usual stoner joke and Orton getting into it by encouraging the fans to spell out “RKO” to set up his match with Gable and you have a pretty good segment.

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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.