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

2. Rolling On Repeat

Stop this writer if you’ve heard this before: Monday Night Raw was main-evented by members of The Vision facing some combination of LA Knight, CM Punk, and an Uso, and the match shockingly was followed by a heel beatdown that became more of a focus than the result.

For the eighth consecutive week (and 11th time in 12 weeks), Raw wrapped up with that familiar cast of characters facing off in the ring, with most of those matches ending in a disqualification or with some shenanigans, and/or followed by a post-match heel attack.

That is the height of lazy, unimaginative booking, as nothing really has been advanced in these matches. Sure, Knight and Jey Uso have fallen apart as allies, but that has been the result of the extracurriculars after the main event. The match – which sometimes is booked during Raw – is just a vehicle to get to that angle, rendering the match itself and the result meaningless.

And once you realize that, it becomes extremely easy to tune out action, even when it’s good. At this point, it’s hard to remember the last time a Raw main event felt like the match itself carried any significant weight. It’s just the last match of the night, booked midway through the show and pitting a limited cast of characters against each other in slightly different groupings with no real stakes attached.

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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.