5 Ups & 5 Downs For WWE Raw (15 Sept - Results & Review)

Downs…

5. Good Wrestling On A Treadmill

Perhaps any week now, Penta will get the backup he needs to take on the New Day and move his rivalry with the legendary tag team forward – and we’re not talking about Erik and Ivar.

Until then, the luchador continued Monday night with his string of entertaining matches that are inoffensive and not without charm. There’s actually a lot to still like about Penta and the comic stylings of Kofi Kingston (who fell to a springboard Mexican Destroyer Monday night), Xavier Woods, and Grayson Waller.

However, they’ve been singing from the same hymnal for the past several weeks now. Case in point: this writer missed two episodes while traveling, and other than learning that the War Raiders have aligned with Penta, nothing really has changed. Waller is still hawking a petition to get the Mexican Destroyer banned, while Kofi and Xavier mourn the tag titles they lost nearly three months ago.

That doesn’t mean any of this is bad on its face, but it’s hard to give passing marks when you see the same wrestlers essentially running in place with each other week after week, and wondering when they actually will take a few steps forward.

Let’s call this the mildest of “downs” with a likely pivot to the positive as soon as they start driving this story ahead.

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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.