5 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Aug 16)

4. Priest, Sheamus On Collision Course

The Miz Damian Priest
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Unlike Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre battling over a sword, Damian Priest and Sheamus have a much simpler feud: over the United States Championship.

We got the hard sell, with Priest ripping off the Celtic Warrior’s finisher to put Miz down, and Sheamus losing his mind afterwards. Sheamus hopped on the announce table and called him a “disrespectful scumbag” and encouraged him to enjoy the spotlight now, because he was going to kick his head off at SummerSlam.

See? Simple and direct. No filler or fluff, no silly theft of an inanimate object or anything like that. Just two guys talking tough and fighting over a title. And it could be a sleeper match.

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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.