5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (15 Oct - Results & Review)

3. An Intelligent Monster

For the past couple of months, Bronson Reed has run roughshod over the Raw roster, riding a wave of success with a series of Tsunamis that have flattened several wrestlers. Reed looked like an unhinged monster, swatting aside referees and officials to attack his opponents, and his battle against Braun Strowman a couple of weeks ago was even billed as a Last Monster Standing match.

Monday, however, Bronson revealed that his attacks were all part of a calculated plan to get to the main event. He told Raw GM Adam Pearce that he wanted to get noticed and get the spotlight, to be the top guy, so he did what was necessary to get noticed – and it worked. Now, he has the attention of one of Raw’s top guys in Seth Rollins, which should get him a main-event-caliber match.

There’s an argument to be made that Reed admitting the strategy behind the chaos diminished the frenzied nature of those attacks, which in part is what got him over in the first place. But there’s a line Bronson can straddle between intelligent and unhinged, and he might need both sides of that equation against Rollins.

Overall, this was a net positive for Reed, adding layers to his character rather than letting him be a one-dimensional monster.

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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.