6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (13 April - Results & Review)

2. Dragging Pat McAfee Across Brands

Pat McAfee Randy Orton
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If there’s a universal truth in professional wrestling right now, it should be that the Pat McAfee experiment has been a dismal failure that everyone – including the wrestlers themselves – has flamed.

But that didn’t stop WWE from having Roman Reigns invoke McAfee in his show-opening vignette on Raw Monday night. This led to them showing a clip from SmackDown of McAfee talking about CM Punk’s merchandise sales and depositing his check in a bank account labeled “I’m sorry, Saudi Arabia,” - insider stuff that registered with no one.

The video came back to Roman, who said he liked Pat (making him a heel) but noted that an ex-punter would never run his mouth about the Tribal Chief.

What are we doing here? This McAfee dreck has poisoned one world title feud, so why are they insisting on even referencing it in the other world title program? Just leave it alone, cut your losses, and move the hell on. It’s bad enough we got a SmackDown recap that replayed the lowlights from that segment later on; we didn’t need a tie-in to Punk/Roman.

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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.