5 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 10)

4. Time For Shane, None For Others

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Three hours of Raw, and still not enough time to have the Viking Raiders appear. Or AOP, which returned as a unit at Super Showdown. But there was time for Shane McMahon to prattle on and on during an in-ring celebration, leading to fans chanting, “boring.”

These are WWE’s priorities in 2019. Sure, Shane’s segment was a backdrop for Drew McIntyre to pledge to defeat Roman Reigns in two weeks, but that could have been accomplished quicker, and without the self-congratulatory nonsense.

When you have wrestlers starving for camera time, with a bunch just filling space in these 24/7 Championship scrums, then you have to wonder what you’re accomplishing here. Spoiler: Nothing.

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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.