4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (June 6)

3. Beat The Champ For A Title Shot

Montez Ford
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Sorry, but the trope of “beating the champ to earn a title shot” is very, very overdone in WWE.

Monday night, we saw the Street Profits tangle with the Usos in a “Championship Contender’s” match, which Byron Saxton helpfully explained as, “If the Street Profits are able to find a way to defeat the champions, you’ve gotta believe that they’re next in line for a title opportunity.”

Yep, that all sounds very solid and not at all arbitrary.

But then, the Profits won via count-out, one of the weakest ways to triumph. Sure, that preserves a real finish to a match, but in reality, it’s a cop-out that gives them zero momentum – you can’t win the titles via count-out, so how does that help you? – and it just makes the Usos look silly losing via count-out.

Sure, a title match between the two should rock, but now we’ve just seen that match. So how will a rematch for the titles be that much more special?

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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.