5 Ups 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 19)

5. Randy’s Recollections

Randy Orton
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Ah yes, more exposition from Randy Orton. That’s what this feud needed.

Yeah, if you were looking for the best way to sell you Hell in a Cell world title match, Orton taking us down memory lane about his previous seven HIAC bouts probably would not be the best way to go. But yet, that’s what we were treated to Monday night.

And then Drew McIntyre showed up, mercifully cutting Orton’s soliloquy short, and retrieved a pair of bolt cutters. But before he could attack Randy, Raw ended. So we’re left to wonder if one of them got battered too badly to show up on Sunday.

Worse, the hard sell for a HIAC world title match was… Randy Orton talking. Wow.

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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.