5 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 15)

2. Makeshift Matches Eat ~40 Minutes

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Boy, it’s a good thing the Usos decided to invade Raw Monday night, and then Seth Rollins decided to interfere in an ensuing tag match, triggering a second impromptu bout.

Otherwise, what would Raw have done with its first 40 minutes of programming?

Raw opened with Big E trash-talking Roman Reigns, then calling out Kevin Owens. But afterward, the Usos jumped the WWE Champion. Riddle saved, and Sonya Deville did her best Teddy Long impersonation and made a tag team match. That barely lasted 2 minutes, as Rollins interfered for the DQ, only for Randy Orton to make the save. This of course triggered a six-man tag when we came back from commercial.

So we endured all of that for a six-man that ended with Rollins pinning Riddle… why? It was just an ending they felt they could book, gave Seth a win and didn’t spoil the Usos/RK-Bro match.

More importantly, we killed 20% of Raw programming for the night with that! Now that’s how you generate content!

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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.