6 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (6 Jan - Results & Review)

8. Oh Look, Another Celebrity!

Celebrities attending professional wrestling events and landing onscreen is a decades-old tradition designed to show fans just how popular wrestling truly is. It’s a perfectly acceptable use of well-known figures in the sports, entertainment, music, and business worlds.

But after the 87th celebrity appeared on Raw in the audience Monday night, the gag became unbearable. The gimmick was made even worse by a couple of dozen current and former WWE wrestlers taking a seat in the crowd for Raw, which is a ridiculous trope that became laughable after about 10 minutes.

Damage CTRL and Lyra Valkyria (and every other member of the Raw roster) sitting in the audience to watch Raw was comically bad. Why wouldn’t they be in the back doing their job rather than sitting there for three minutes and waving while on camera?

Someone with more time on their hands could calculate how much camera time was spent focusing on these celebrities and wrestlers pretending to be having the time of their lives. To be fair, some of the celebs are actual fans, but after the fourth cutaway, it felt like WWE begging the audience to believe them that they’re popular.

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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.