4 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 14)

1. Hide-And-Never-Be-Found

Bray Wyatt
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That would be the game many fans would love to play with Randy Orton these days. Go hide and we’ll forget about you.

But instead, we were forced to endure another bad Orton promo opposite Bray Wyatt, and a silly (not in a good way) game of hide-and-seek that ended with Bray being transfixed by a rocking chair. Yes, a rocking chair so captivated Wyatt that he had to sit in it, ala his former persona.

It turned out that the chair was part of Orton’s master plan, as he attacked, tossed Wyatt into a wooden chest (or coffin), dumped gasoline on it and lit it on fire. Because this feud needed arson and attempted murder. But instead of burning Bray, The Fiend emerged and choked out Orton with a Mandible Claw.

Uggh. Seriously, all of this happened on Monday night.

And for the 100th time, can someone remind us who we’re supposed to cheer? Or at least support? The homicidal guy who donned night vision goggles to attack a 71-year-old man? Or the deranged schizophrenic who wears fright mask and terrorizes people?

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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.