5 Ups & 5 Downs For WWE Raw (29 Sept - Results & Review)

4. Just A Match

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This week’s edition of “wrestling happening in front of our faces” came courtesy of LA Knight and Kofi Kingston in a completely forgettable match set up by an argument “earlier today” in Raw GM Adam Pearce’s office.

The broader story here was that Knight will just about fight anybody on his way back to challenging for the World Heavyweight Championship again. He does need victories to help make his case beyond “I was the last person to beat Seth Rollins,” so his win Monday night was relevant.

That doesn’t excuse a match that was 10 minutes of dull, check-your-phone action. That’s not meant to be a knock on the wrestlers putting their bodies on the line, but when you build a match with a 45-second “earlier today” segment between two guys who have almost never interacted, and then the match itself isn’t a gripping, action-filled battle, you’re not going to win a lot of fans.

This was the right result, but they could have gone to a BFT 30 seconds in, and it wouldn’t have made a lick of difference in fan investment.

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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.