5 Ups And 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 8th)
3. Seeing In 3D
It came without warning, but fans are so trained that they picked up on it before Fernando hit the mat and started chanting. Of course, it was the 3D, the Dudley Death Drop. Luke Harper and Erick Rowan hit it on Los Matadores, drawing a huge reaction from the crowd and chant for another, which the duo obliged on Diego. Royal Rumble notwithstanding, it had been years since WWE fans saw 3D in a match, and they reacted loudly. Its a perfect finishing move for Harper and Rowan, but what really rubbed the wrong way was that fans very clearly dialed in on the move, chanting for 3D, asking for another and then following that up with a We want tables! chant. They clearly got it and yet WWE apparently wasnt willing to connect those dots and simply referred to the move as The Way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbEUGA8q6nU Look it might have been a decade since the Dudley Boys were in WWE, but ignoring the origins of a very unique tandem finishing move especially one that belonged to the most decorated tag team in professional wrestling history is just plain foolish.
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.
