4 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec 28)

2. Just Can’t Be Bothered To Care

Ricochet Mustafa Ali
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On paper, the storyline makes sense: Mustafa Ali is trying to recruit his good friend Ricochet to join RETRIBUTION by essentially beating him over and over to prove it’s not worth it to stand alone.

There are a couple problems, however: We’ve seen this same exact storyline, which also included Ricochet, with the Hurt Business – and Cedric Alexander actually joined them. And the other problem: RETRIBUTION is a joke. Maybe if this group hadn’t been turned into a bumbling gang of masked goons we could believe that someone might join them and it be a step up (see Hurt Business), but this just isn’t working.

It’s a shame, because Ricochet’s comeback against all of RETRIBUTION was nicely done, and his refusal to join was admirable, but we’ve seen WWE tease caring about Ricochet before, only to be disappointed.

Prove us wrong, WWE. This writer is always willing to be wrong about something like this.

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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.