5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 3)

4. What Was The Main Event?

IYO SKY Alexa Bliss
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Pop quiz: What was the scheduled main event when Raw went on the air?

As usual, matches were added during the show, including what ended up being the main event (Alexa Bliss/Iyo Sky) and the sub-main (Angelo Dawkins/Solo Sikoa), so the announced main event was the Raw Women’s Championship contract signing, with the match being Chad Gable versus Braun Strowman.

That’s just unforgivable for a show that’s supposed to be the emulation of a real sport/competition. What three-hour episodic TV show goes on the air and doesn’t have the final 45 minutes of its programming planned out? Yes, we know it was planned to look chaotic, but the point remains that we’re to believe Raw’s third hour wasn’t mapped out.

Sorry, no buys for that. Even if you excuse one impromptu match, there still was another.

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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.