5 Ups And 11 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 27)

Downs...

11. The Never-Ending Beatdown

dolph ziggler xavier woods
WWE.com

We’ll give some kudos for this later, but can we just note that the entire segment between Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler and Xavier Woods lasted nearly 20 minutes. And that’s after a 15-minute opening segment featuring Kofi, Seth Rollins, Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman.

Seriously, 20 minutes. Dolph jumped Kofi, Xavier ran him off. Come back from commercial, Ziggler attacks Woods, and they brawl for the entire segment, until Kingston saves. Come back from commercial, and Dolph walks back out to deliver a promo. Finally, we got away from that angle.

That’s a hell of a lot of time on Raw to dedicate to a SmackDown title match, especially one that seemed to last forever.

Advertisement
Contributor
Contributor

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.