5 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE WrestleMania Raw (March 28)

1. Uninspired Matches, Horrible Sell

Drew McIntyre Madcap Moss
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Calling the last Raw before your biggest show of the year “WrestleMania Raw” doesn’t make it big. Having half of SmackDown on the show might amp up the “star power,” but it can’t compensate for poor writing.

The go-home Raw featured six matches, none of which were consequential, and none of which were memorable in any way, shape or form. Three of them featured WrestleMania opponents squaring off in different capacities: a singles match featuring one person from each duo in a Mania tag match, an eight-woman tag match featuring participants of a fatal four-way tag match forced together, and a handicap match featuring the participants of a Mania singles match with a cohort thrown in.

Add in a singles champ losing clean for no good reason and a champion versus champion match that just ended in a schmoz and you’ve got a meaningless Raw. Only a handful of promos saved this from being a disaster of a show, and even then, nothing was blowaway good.

If this was WWE’s best foot, it should probably be amputated.

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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.