5 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 7)

7. Stop Messing With RK-Bro

Riddle Randy Orton
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We should admit and acknowledge that the budding team of Randy Orton and Riddle is one of the few good things going on for Raw these days.

But that doesn’t mean it’s not without its serious flaws. Riddle’s stoner rants really aren’t funny, and the entire “lock your mouth shut and hand over the key” bit is becoming increasingly sophomoric. Sure, Orton sells it well (dropping the key in his boot was inspired), but if we wanted this sort of comedy, we have R-Truth. Riddle doesn’t need to be doing this crap.

If you’re looking for a gag that clicked, Riddle saying he was wearing two RK-Bro T-shirts because “Randy doesn’t wear shirts... he also doesn’t wear pants,” was pretty funny. But a grown man zippering and locking his mouth shut and handing over a key is just too much.

If we could dial that stuff back a bit, it would go a long way.

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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.