6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (16 Dec - Results & Review)

3. Maybe Lay Off The Stats

Death, taxes, and WWE loving its navel-gazing moments. These are the things everyone can count on in life.

As expected on Monday night, WWE dedicated time to showing fans what happened after Saturday Night’s Main Event went off the air, with Kevin Owens delivering a package piledriver and putting Cody Rhodes on the shelf, and KO then standing on a stretchered champion and holding the Winged Eagle title aloft.

Joe Tessitore dutifully informed fans of Rhodes’ injuries and their severity, but the impact of that vicious attack was undercut by a “Did you know?” graphic popping up informing everyone that all the WWE social media videos of Owens’ attack and the aftermath had been viewed 45 million times.

That is a tremendously impressive figure, but bragging about how many people watched your champion being hospitalized completely undermines the solemn tone they were trying to strike. Imagine a newscast talking about an 80-year-old grandmother being assaulted and then noting the video of the attack was their most-viewed clip that month.

Don’t try to play something as a serious, somber affair and then boast with a graphic about how it went viral five seconds later. Bad form.

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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.