5 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb. 22)

by Scott Carlson

1. Lashley Gets The Hard Sell

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The moment Shane McMahon announced Braun Strowman versus Bobby Lashley, with Strowman earning a spot in the WWE Championship match next week if he wins, you felt like it was a foregone conclusion.

Man, how wrong we were.

Lashley ran through Braun in a short hoss match, with both men hitting each other with power moves galore. The All Mighty kicked out of a Braun powerslam, then hit his spinebuster and spear to take out Strowman. Afterward, he cinched in the Hurt Lock just to leave no doubt, then he caught a charging Miz with a spinebuster and spear to drive the point home.

If we’re not looking at the next WWE Champion, something is seriously wrong.

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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.