5 Ups & 5 Downs For WWE Raw (6 Oct - Results & Review)

3. Vegemite As A Weapon

Bronson Reed
WWE

Did you know that WWE signed Bronson Reed from his home country of Australia because he mastered a specific match and made it famous?

Yes, WWE signed Reed because of his dominance in the dreaded Australian Street Fight. Sorry, that’s a serious statement. Paul Heyman said it during the opening segment of Raw, so it must be true.

Heyman also said that Roman Reigns fears Bronson – despite having beat him cleanly five weeks earlier. True, Reed laid Reigns out with a couple Tsunamis and he had to be stretchered out of the arena – apparently for the first time in his career (though he sat out half of the 2016 Royal Rumble, but that’s another story). But no one is buying that Roman is even remotely concerned with Reed, especially after getting the better of him at the close of this segment.

The Australian Street Fight has to be a gag. There’s no way they sent Heyman out there to talk up Bronson’s expertise in a special match in his native country, only for it to be “[INSERT LOCALE NAME] Street Fight.”

What are they going to do, smack each other with a didgeridoo?

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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.