4 Ups And Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Nov 24th)
1. Hornswoggles In Charge!
He has to be, right? WWE paid off its awful anonymous Raw general manager angle a couple years back by having Santino discover that the anonymous GM actually was Hornswoggle, sitting on a computer under the ring, making bad matches. It obviously was a silly way to tie up a long-standing loose end, and if thats where the story died, then it was fine in the long run. But when the e-mail-happy GM returned Monday night, it raised the question: Will WWE acknowledge Hornswoggle, or just ignore that segment entirely? Not to mention, the anonymous Raw GM only really worked with Michael Cole as a heel reading the e-mails smugly and booking wrestlers in awful matches. Having him as a face hurts the impact of reading those edicts. http://youtu.be/3KcFmn1pdnU?t=48s Perhaps the worst part of this whole anonymous GM fiasco was that it ended Raw, which was riding a high note of Ziggler and Bryan celebrating with Cena in the ring. Its like throwing cold water on a brightly burning torch. More broadly, WWE needs to lock down a permanent GM in the coming weeks. The longer the ship doesnt have a captain, the worse it will get with random leaders. At least this weeks GM made perfect sense.
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.
