5 Ups & 5 Downs For WWE Raw (29 Sept - Results & Review)
Roman returns, Rollins and Rhodes continue verbal sparring, bad acting detracts from feuds.
Perhaps WWE should focus a little more on the “sports” side of the “sports entertainment” ledger.
Raw brought fans another uneven show Monday night, producing mediocre-to-decent wrestling and some backstage and in-ring segments where the acting was approaching C-level horror movie bad. The main event once again was dominated by the Vision and a babyface contingent (this time it was the Usos), for an astonishing 12th time in the past 14 weeks.
Surprisingly, the build for the Cody Rhodes/Seth Rollins match continues to be a bright spot for the red brand, and Dominik Mysterio found a way to retain his Intercontinental Championship. Despite some bad acting, the Kabuki Warriors/Iyo Sky and Rhea Ripley feud is building to what should be an excellent tag match, so that has some serious light at the end of the tunnel.
And of course, Roman Reigns got off his butt and showed up to work (kidding, sort of). Reigns added fuel to the fire burning within Jey Uso, while Roman also seemingly set up a feud with an up-and-coming impact player.
WWE continues to be a hot product (by some metrics) that produces some seriously uninspired, dull, illogical, clumsy, and competently wrestled programming (that’s not a compliment). The company really could use a string of shows where the pieces fall into place, because otherwise, this is going to become a measurable slide that leaves fans wondering what happened.
For now, though, let’s get to it…
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