6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (30 Sept - Results & Review)
3. A Warm, Celebratory Moment
Last week, Raw ended with one of the best, pure joy moments in quite some time when Jey Uso overcame the odds and captured his first singles title, dethroning Bron Breakker and winning the Intercontinental Championship.
Naturally, Raw opened this week with a recap of that magical moment and then an extended entrance from Jey, complete with his son, a ton of pyro, and a “You deserve it!” chant. Uso’s promo would be interrupted by Breakker, who declared he wasn’t out there to attack Jey or spoil the party, and – shocker! – he was true to his word, and simply heaped praise and respect on the new IC champ and shook his hand.
On its own, this was a very nice, simple, warm moment, a continuation of last week’s good feelings that gave fans the opportunity to just enjoy something purely good. It’s such a drastic departure from where WWE was just a couple years ago under Vince McMahon. Truly happy moments were so incredibly few and far between, so much so that fans just were waiting for the hammer to drop whenever they started to relax.
Instead, Raw’s opening segment was the victory lap for Jey and a reset before both he and Breakker begin their next chapters.