5 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 30)

5. Hell Of A Debut

Mia Yim
WWE

If you need something that was reflective of how RETRIBUTION’s main roster run has gone, look no further than Reckoning’s first televised match.

Within seconds of the bell ringing, her mask flew off her face, leaving her to initially cover up, and then just wrestle sans face covering against Dana Brooke. (And yet, no one screamed, “Hey, that’s Mia Yim!”) The match itself was pretty pedestrian, with Mustafa Ali getting on the apron for a distraction, but Reckoning couldn’t capitalize and instead Brooke rolled her up for the pin in Reckoning’s first match.

And then Ali berated her, saying, “There’s no failure in RETRIBUTION.” Hahahaha! Oh wait, he was serious?

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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.