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

1. Boo? Cheer? Who Cares?

The Fiend Alexa Bliss
WWE.com

Pop quiz: Who is the face and who is the heel in this Bray Wyatt/Randy Orton feud?

Bonus question: Does anyone actually care? Because the writers sure don’t seem to.

Orton appeared on A Moment of Bliss with a very childlike Alexa Bliss to open Raw, delivering an awful promo where he once again talked about hearing voices – because his entrance music says so – and how he keeps his pain bottled up. He then said he found The Fiend’s weakness: Bliss. Cue The Fiend, who basically begged Orton to hand Bliss back over to him, which he did.

So again, is Orton – the villain who massacred a bunch of legends and just lost his world title a couple of weeks ago – the hero here? Or is it The Fiend, who has tormented wrestlers for years?

On the surface, Fiend is the one who is more “in the right” here, and Orton is just despicable, so you’d assume that he’s the heel. But WWE needs to make us care – soon.

Advertisement
Contributor
Contributor

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.