5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 7)

1. 20+ Minutes Of Main Event Filler

WWE Raw Kevin Owens Randy Orton Riddle
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Seth Rollins versus Riddle and RK-Bro versus Rollins & Kevin Owens sound like two matches that could actually be good, meaningful matches.

But in WWE Land, those matches exist to help fill out the final half-hour of Raw. Riddle/Rollins was slated to main-event the show with about 20-25 minutes to go. Though there wasn’t much of a story to this one – both men are in the Elimination Chamber next week, and Riddle has a future Raw Tag Team Championship match on the horizon – this had some promise.

However, the match ended in a DQ when Owens attacked Riddle, which brought out Randy Orton. This gave way to a tag match between the four, which ended when Rollins hit the Stomp on Riddle and pinned him. So WWE protected Riddle in singles action with a DQ, only to beat him in a tag match – while RK-Bro has a tag title shot.

This was more about filling the last block of Raw than it was making sense as a storytelling device, and it showed.

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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.