5 Ups 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 19)

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5. Catching Your Attention

The Fiend Retribution
WWE.com

As terrible as everything that came after the opening was, the first 10 minutes of Raw filled you with anticipation about potential goodness.

The show opened with Alexa Bliss introducing the Fiend, giving us the demonic duo together in the ring, holding hands. Maybe, just maybe, we’d get some hint as to their relationship. But before anything could happen, RETRIBUTION showed up and circled the unmoving Fiend and Bliss. However, the couple disappeared to avoid a beating.

And before we could dwell on RETRIBUTION getting punked, the Hurt Business showed up for a brawl to precede their 8-man tag match. All of it highlighted some of the show’s bigger acts and raised an interesting prospect with the Fiend.

Of course, it all fell apart moments later, but it was an eventful 10 minutes.

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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.