6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (28 August - Results & Review)

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6. Ciampa Backs Up His Tough Talk

Tommaso Ciampa Bronson Reed
WWE.com

Last week, Tommaso Ciampa cut an impassioned promo about needing to step up and become “the guy” in WWE. It was a solid promo that probably would have been better served in front of a live crowd.

Monday, he gave the physical equivalent of that promo, defeating Bronson Reed in a brisk, hard-hitting match that saw Ciampa pick the bigger man up and deliver an Air Raid Crash, overcome a running Liger Bomb from Reed, and hit several stiff shots en route to pinning Bronson with a crucifix bomb.

The match wasn’t a memorable one – a couple of the moves might stick out – but the point here is that Tommaso finally got past Bronson and won, backing up his promo. This doesn’t necessarily fill fans with all the confidence in the world – WWE has done this before and then pulled the rug out, dropping a push suddenly – but it’s fair to give positive marks here.

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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.