4 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Aug 28)

3. ‘Suplex City, B****’

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If you want to put a feud over, just have Brock Lesnar grab a mic and personally threaten to take his opponent to “Suplex City, b*tch.”

But seriously, WWE has set itself up with a big money match for No Mercy, with one of its biggest crossover stars in Brock Lesnar facing its newest organic sensation in Braun Strowman. And everything WWE is doing – having both men posturing and even attacking the other briefly – is just whetting fans’ appetite for a one-on-one match next month. Paul Heyman and Lesnar did their job Monday night.

We saw what the two were capable of in the fatal four-way match at SummerSlam, but this is just the two of them, and it could be incredible. If WWE is smart, they’ll strike while the iron is white hot with Strowman.

For right now, any interactions between the two – or even the possibility of a confrontation – is something to not miss.

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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.