6 Reasons Last Night's WWE Raw Made You Change The Channel
2. Squashes And Meaningless Matches
Monday Night Raw boasted eight matches over three hours, which sounds like a wrestling fans dream, but when you hear that five of the matches didnt last three minutes, you realize it wasnt a workrate type of show. Seriously, Rusev versus Zack Ryder, Adam Rose versus Titus ONeil, Jack Swagger versus Curtis Axel and a six-diva schmozz match. This could have been Wrestling Challenge or WWF Superstars in the late 80s, not Raw in 2014. And the three main matches? We had a tag match between Big Show/Mark Henry and the Wyatts that ended in a DQ, a tag match between Sheamus/Dolph Ziggler and Miz/Cesaro that ended with interference, and the six-man main event that left things where they started, with Cena declaring hes ready for his rematch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKLqQ9NLB5w Sure, some small angles developed from the matches: Henry is going after Rusev, the Usos are going to end up in a title match with the Dust Brothers, and Swagger has moved on to Bo Dallas. But as mentioned before, if youre lacking well-written segments and a hot crowd, having subpar wrestling isnt going to get Raw back on track. A solid mid-card match might have put fans back in a good mood and salvaged things. Instead, we had Heath Slater getting beat up by Adam Roses bunny.
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.
