5 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 35

1. Bait-And-Switch

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WWE really didn’t seem to care about pissing the Raw after WrestleMania crowd, that’s for sure.

You know this to be true because they booked a Winner Take All match pitting Kofi Kingston’s WWE Championship against Seth Rollins’ WWE Universal Championship, and it ended in a tag match against The Bar.

Yup, the first world title unification match since 2013 was a bait-and-switch move to close out the biggest Raw of the year. And it didn’t even result in something interesting, just a random tag match.

Memo to WWE: If you’re going to pull that stunt, just make it a straight-up match between the two rather than title-for-title. The fans were absolutely right to chant “bulls***” at the ring and then toss beachballs around. That was an embarrassment of epic proportions.

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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.