5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 6 - Results & Review)

1. Not Doing Any Favors

One of the easily overlooked negatives of Friday’s cataclysmically bad closing segment was Roman Reigns taking The Rock’s WrestleMania 32 blowtorch and incinerating all the work Seth Rollins had put into building the World Heavyweight Championship into a meaningful title.

That completely counterproductive diatribe undid Rollins’ excellent promo from last week’s Raw, leaving everyone – Cody Rhodes, Rollins, the title itself – looking worse for wear.

What was the solution Monday night? If you’re WWE, you have Rollins and Drew McIntyre taking swipes at each other as they make the case for a WrestleMania World Title match, with Rollins saying Drew lost to him twice, and McIntyre pointing out that Rollins lost to Cody three times in 2022.

McIntyre then went one step further and put down the notion of even challenging Reigns because “we all know the finish,” calling out the ridiculously tired and hackneyed finish of the Bloodline interfering. Here’s a wrestler – in storyline – pointing out just how unimaginative and predictable Roman’s increasingly rare title defenses are, that everyone knows he’s going to retain due to family help.

In one promo, they made these two potential WrestleMania matches look less special and then called out their own shoddy, repetitive shortcut booking of the longest World Title reign in 35 years.

No one came out of this segment looking any better, and in fact, they all looked worse, Roman included.