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

4. Where’s Drew?

Drew McIntyre WWE Raw
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Y’all do realize that Drew McIntyre was the WWE Champion just 24 hours earlier, right?

Yet McIntyre was nowhere to be seen on Monday night, especially when you’d have figured that the former champ would have some serious unfinished business seeing how he lost the title at Elimination Chamber. Bobby Lashley or the Miz certainly had receipts coming, but they never were cashed in on Monday.

Why? Was there an announcement this writer missed saying Drew was taken to a local medical facility after the PPV and wasn’t available? (Maybe he was put in a hospital bed next to Keith Lee, who apparently was so brutally beaten by Lashley two weeks ago that he still hasn’t returned to action.)

Unless there was a stated reason, not having your former champ on Raw to address being cashed in on – and brutalized by Lashley – is criminal malpractice.

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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.