5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (28 Sept - Results & Review)

4. Officially A Flop

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Make no mistake: booking Dragon Lee to defeat Big Cass Monday night was the right call – with a caveat, which will be explained later.

Cass’ booking since returning to WWE has been a huge disappointment, a complete waste of his talent and abilities. Instead of utilizing his unique brand of humor and presence, WWE chose to book Cass as a generic big man who came back to stack BODY (singular, because he only seemed to attack Je’Von Evans for a month).

Dragon pinning Cass here is a good thing, but it still bears mentioning just how dismal WWE’s booking of the seven-footer has been. Cass has now been pinned by a much smaller wrestler in two of his three televised matches, both coming this month.

Why does this company hype up a big return, only to flub it so spectacularly, especially when they know exactly what and who they’re getting? It’s like putting a star outfielder behind the plate to catch, or a midfielder as a goalkeeper. It makes no sense, and now they’re just actively jobbing him out.

Maybe this will lead to a character shift, but if that’s the case, why didn’t they just book him properly from the jump?

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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.