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

3. Underwhelming

Taken on its own, there was nothing really wrong with Raw’s main event Monday. Jey Uso and Ilja Dragunov had a perfectly acceptable wrestling match, with Jey pulling out the win in the end.

But this wasn’t just any other match. It was the final Raw quarterfinal in the King of the Ring tournament, with four of the bouts televised during the past two weeks. Most of those matches have been good at worst to tremendous at best. But Uso/Dragunov was not on par with the three best to date: Dragunov/Ricochet and Gunther/Sheamus last week, and Gunther/Kofi Kingston Monday night.

It’s difficult to adequately describe it, but Jey is more than a competent wrestler, but his matches rarely seem to translate. If you’re into yelling “Yeet!” and aren’t living and dying by what happens between the bells, then this criticism rings hollow. But Monday’s match felt like it under-delivered, especially given that it was the show’s main event.

However, Jey remains one of Raw’s most popular superstars, so even this critique should be measured against that reality. Match quality isn’t everything, after all. But that doesn’t change that it felt like more of a chore than a joy to watch.