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

Downs…

7. Reggie Loves Parks

It’s nice that WWE wants us to get to know Reggie a bit better and gave him some direct-to-camera promo time while defending his 24/7 Championship, but Monday’s deal was ridiculous.

Reggie pulled out and got out of his still-running car to cut a promo about how being at the park reminds him of where he did his first backflip, how he learned to do acrobatics to evade being tagged. Oh, and then he dodged a disguised R-Truth and Akira Tozawa before vaulting over the roof of his car and drove off.

And this makes us want to cheer him because…?

It’s just a great example of WWE not knowing how to actually build a character, so they just have someone utter a few sentences that might garner some sympathy and then hope for the best.

Sorry, no buys this week.

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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.