5 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 20th)

3. Jobber Nation

Monday Night Raw featured nine matches, which might sound like a decent amount of action, but five of them lasted less than four minutes, one ended with a count-out and another ended with a distraction finish. The results of most of the matches were rarely in doubt. Was there any question whether Zach Ryder was going to beat Sheamus? Or if Curtis Axel would top the newly turned Fandango? Or if Adam Rose and an army of Rosebuds could best Ryback? Even the Naomi-Brie Bella match was a foregone conclusion. Brie has been little more than a weaker proxy for her sister, Divas Champion Nikki Bella. Dean Ambrose and Luke Harper have lost to everyone else and have had multiple no-contests against each other, so there was no reason to think that Monday€™s curtain-jerker wasn€™t going to end inconclusively to set up an Extreme Rules PPV match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nejWozs9rsA It just felt like WWE threw a bunch of guys out there to wrestle, with no regard to whether it would be competitive or have any stakes. Did Ryback advance himself toward any goal? Even Naomi, beating a Bella once again, did not take advantage of the moment to demand a title match, leaving it the announcers to ask Nikki €“ and for there still to be no definitive answer.