5 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 27)

6. What A Waste (Of Talent)

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It’s sort of a catch-22 to complain that the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal doesn’t have enough starpower, and then kvetch about this, but bear with us.

It is a crying shame that Braun Strowman, who overcame a sluggish start in WWE to become one of the most popular and dominant stars on the roster, has gone from a marquee matchup at Fastlane to being one of the men competing in the battle royal at WrestleMania next week. Meanwhile, a host of part-timers get plum spots on the PPV in matches before they will disappear into the shadows shortly after Mania.

Strowman will hopefully win the event, but the fact that he was (and still is) a dominant force on Raw and had no program heading into WrestleMania is an indictment against the writers.

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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.