5 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 35

2. ‘Full-Time Champ!’

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Let’s just take a minute to reflect on how great it is to see the WWE Universal Champion show up on Raw Monday night and know that he’ll be there next week as well, and the week after that, and the week after that.

Seth Rollins led off Raw Monday, noting that he had waited a long time to hold the Universal Championship aloft, and as he said good riddance to Brock Lesnar, Rollins pledged to be a fighting champion.

It was a good start to Rollins’ reign, coming out and getting the kudos from the fans and promising to be different just by showing up and defending the title, as he did later that night. It’s a big change from recent years.

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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.