5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (1 Jun - Results & Review)

1. Long Match. Barricade Spot. Repeat.

The crowd noise, table spot, barricade spot, and outside interference would tell you that a lot happened during the Raw main event, and you might be inclined to think that this was a really good match.

But Seth Rollins versus Bron Breakker was another of those overly long TV main events that just kept chugging along at 0.75 speed, making sure to hit every move in both wrestlers’ arsenals, including repeat signatures and finishers.

Throw in a run-in from “Stone Cold” Austin Theory, a save from Montez Ford, and a barricade spot (not another one!) that inexplicably took out Paul Heyman, and you’ve got this match in a nutshell.

As with most Rollins matches, this was pretty well worked, but it’s another in a long series of three-star specials that will fade into a mosaic of similar matches. There was a cute callback to Bret Hart and Goldberg in WCW, with Rollins (the babyface) using Breakker’s tag belt as a shield to knock out a charging Bron when he went for a spear. But otherwise, this was just another long main event that accomplished little.

The match also served to further neuter the Vision, an act well past its sell-by date, and knocked Breakker down a peg in the process, which is counterproductive for a company that desperately needs to start pushing its younger stars and try to build the next generation of talent.