4 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Raw (Aug 17)

by Scott Carlson

1. Rey, Dominik Get Payback

Dominik Seth Rollins
WWE.com

Yeah, we’re one PPV early, but the Mysterios definitely got payback Monday night, when they lured Seth Rollins into a trap.

Babyfaces outsmarting a heel is almost an automatic “up” on its own, but seeing how Dominik took an absolute beating last week and then worked with his dad Rey Mysterio to lay a trap for Rollins and Murphy, well, that makes this a huge positive.

Rollins is clearly an overconfident, delusional heel, so he saw Rey and Dominik as two wounded animals, not realizing that wounded animals are the ones that fight the most vigorously. The Mysterios broke out kendo sticks and waffled both men, really laying into Seth before he fled.

It was a fair amount of payback, with Rollins escaping the worst of it but getting a bit of comeuppance, just enough to make you tune in to see if he really pays, or if he skates somehow.

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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.