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

3. WWE Leans Into Lucha

Original El Grande Americano II Mask vs. Mask
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Even a company as notoriously obtuse as WWE had to recognize that they unwittingly were sitting on a serious match of the year contender from this past weekend, and they decided to play it up Monday night.

Unfortunately for Paul Levesque, the match in question occurred during AAA’s Noche de Los Grandes event on Saturday, with El Grande Americano facing “Original” El Grande Americano in a mask-versus-mask match. They delivered an absolutely stellar match that was the talk of the wrestling world.

Rather than allow this instant classic to hide in a promotion that mainly exists in the United States on YouTube, WWE aired it in full after Raw on Monday night, with the announcers talking it up in great detail during the program and airing a hype video for it as well.

It says a lot about the piss-poor booking in WWE proper that two main roster midcarders donned masks (along with four other under-utilized superstars) and turned out a feud and match like Saturday’s mask-versus-mask war in AAA in a show booked by the Undertaker.

As much as this deserves praise from WWE for incorporating it into Raw, this should serve as an indictment on the main roster’s creative team and their utter inability to do anything even remotely approaching this feud and match.

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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.