4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 9)

3. 24/7 Hijinks

Akira Tozawa
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How many rollup pinfalls can you squeeze into two minutes? WWE seemed determined to find out on Monday night.

After R-Truth regained his 24/7 Championship for the 43rd time, he was forced to defend it in a seven-man match. This match saw Erik of the Viking Raiders and Tucker join the ranks of go-nowhere wrestlers vying for a worthless strap where the only wrestling move you need to know is a schoolboy.

We got a quick end to the match with Akira Tozawa pinning Truth, but then what followed was a series of rollups and pinfalls – eight more, in all – ending with Truth pinning Lince Dorado to win back the title for a 44th time.

It was just bad, awful “comedy” that wasn’t funny, wasn’t entertaining and only served to make talented wrestlers like Erik, Drew Gulak, Tozawa and Lucha House Party look like jokes. It’s not like the tag division could use another team, or the secondary title could use a few contenders.

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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.