4 Ups And 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec 27)

7. Killing 10 Minutes

WWE Raw RK-Bro Riddle Randy Orton
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RK-Bro has undergone a bit of a renaissance in the latter stages of this year, but Monday’s opening promo was a misfire from the duo.

Randy Orton and Riddle vamped for about 10 minutes, with the Original Bro talking about patenting brogurt and asking Randy to look at his holiday card. Orton sidestepped that and said that the only way he could have a happy new year was if he beat Otis later in the night.

This led Riddle to wax about doing some self-reflection, which went nowhere, then to Randy showing video from last week and Riddle being amazed by the screen (yes, really).

All of that killed the first 10 minutes of Raw, before Alpha Academy came out to banter for a few more minutes and set up an additional match of Riddle versus Chad Gable. All told, this (and the added match) killed 20 minutes of the three-hour program, which is what it was there to do. If it was about building heat, that could have been done in less than half the time.

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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.