5 Ups And 3 Downs From WWE RAW (Best Of 2022)

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5. Giving Sheamus And Gunther Their Flowers

WWE Clash At the Castle 2022 Sheamus Gunther
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For a company that typically doesn’t love a certain type of wrestling match, WWE has certainly gotten a lot of mileage out of the hard-hitting style of Imperium and the Brawling Brutes.

Raw highlighted Sheamus and Gunther’s battle for the Intercontinental Championship at Clash at the Castle, which finally turned fans onto the Celtic Warrior for his in-ring work, and then focused on the feud between the Brutes and Imperium, culminating in the donnybrook match.

Probably the true highlight though was an interview with Sheamus, who joked around and took the camera on a tour of his home decorated for Christmas, include a life-sized gremlin and a cardboard cutout of MacGruber.

Fun stuff, and another unguarded interview segment that was much easier to watch and enjoy that forced, scripted banter.

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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.