5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (25 May - Results & Review)
Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu gear up for Tribal Combat.
Sandwiched between Saturday Night’s Main Event and Clash in Italy, this week’s edition of Monday Night Raw managed to hype its three matches for the upcoming PLE decently while delivering one of WWE’s best television matches in a while, and set up a future title match that could be another fun in-ring romp.
Overall, Raw hit its high-water mark early on with Oba Femi accepting Brock Lesnar’s challenge and promising to end the Beast (a qualified “up” that relies on WWE not backsliding Femi to set up a rubber match), and an Intercontinental Championship match that had a blistering final sequence that rightly had fans losing their collective minds.
Beyond that, Raw tried – with mixed results – to do a lot of table-setting for Bloodline 2.0, with LA Knight and Jimmy Uso conducting a clunky promo exchange, and Jacob Fatu and Roman Reigns reiterating the finer points of Tribal Combat in a tame – but surprisingly not tense – go-home segment.
Raw also revealed that The Vision has sustained another injury to one of its members, another indication that this stable really should be scrubbed from existence rather than continue to limp along. Montez Ford and Seth Rollins had an impromptu match that had all the potential in the world on paper but fell short in the ring. And Ethan Page had a fun little turn in a backstage segment that elicited a grin.
Let’s get to it…