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

4. Who To Job… Ah, Our Intercontinental Champion

Austin Theory Ricochet
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This f***ing company, man…

Remember several weeks ago when reports surfaced that Ricochet was viewed as the #2 babyface on SmackDown behind Drew McIntyre, and then he won the Intercontinental Championship? It felt like finally WWE was going to get behind the One and Only and give him the push he’d been denied since being called up to the main roster.

Then he lost two short singles matches on SmackDown last week to set up a triple threat IC title match against two tag wrestlers this Friday – not even on WrestleMania proper.

And Monday, Ricochet jobbed in less than 3 minutes to Austin Theory. WHY? The guy is your #2 champ on Fridays heading into a title defense and he lost a nothing match for no reason. Drew Gulak, Apollo Crews, Mansoor and Cedric Alexander were all right there if you needed someone to do the j-o-b.

Remember this six months from now when Ricochet is released amidst another round of “budget cuts” and the chatter backstage is that he never really “got over” the way many thought he would.

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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.