5 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Nov 10)
4. Swagger Down And Out
Poor Jack Swagger. He went from putting 318 million Americans on his back in taking on Rusev to getting curb-stomped right out of a Survivor Series main event, essentially becoming a plot point in the narrative of the Authority taking out anyone who defies them. Swagger was getting a pretty good reaction a few months ago when he abandoned the Tea Party-esque character in favor of a more patriotic persona, but without a foreign threat, hes just returned to being a generic guy out there. Worse yet, he took two curb stomps in the ring and already has been ruled out of Survivor Series two weeks away? Dean Ambrose took a curb stomp through cinderblocks, Randy Orton on steel steps. Swagger simply ate a guys finisher twice and hes suddenly been ruled out for a match two weeks later. But John Cena can take 16 German suplexes and show up the next night for a fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8WOPnm4Gv4 That Swagger guy must be a wimp.
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.
