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

3. More Impromptu ‘Goodness’

Another week, another incomplete WWE card that got filled after Raw went on the air – including the main event.

LA Knight and Jey Uso had a run-in during the arrivals at the opening, and while they were in Raw GM Adam Pearce’s office later, Knight begged for a match against the two Bronnys. This led to the main event between Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed versus Knight and, eventually, Jimmy Uso.

Even later into the show, Stephanie Vaquer got into an argument with Asuka, who volunteered Kairi Sane to face her on Raw. Just like that, we had our second impromptu match of the evening.

Stop. Doing. This.

The occasional situation with two wrestlers needing to settle their differences in the ring immediately is completely plausible and acceptable, but when it comes on the heels of weeks or months of WWE GMs booking their shows on the fly, there’s no benefit of the doubt to be given.

If they did this once every two or three months, it would be barely noticeable. But half of Raw’s card is booked after the show goes live these days, which is embarrassing even as an emulation of sport or (as Triple H called it) a “movie about the sport.”

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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.