6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (23 Dec - Results & Review)

DOWNS…

4. A Useless Stable

Pure Fusion Collective
WWE

Mid-card heel stables are often by design incompetent and bumbling. They’re threat is their numbers, not how menacing they are.

Pure Fusion Collective, however, are saddled with a horrible name, a terrible won-loss record, a reputation for wrestling to deafening silence, and now evil genius idiocy.

Monday, the trio approached Raw GM Adam Pearce with Sonya Deville reminding everyone of how she had a worse role on the show as an assistant GM and tried to book herself into the Women’s Intercontinental Championship tournament to replace Kairi Sane… after the group injured her on camera last week.

Pearce rightly mocked them as being “our of [their] damn minds” before revealing he had tapped Sane’s fellow Damage CTRL teammate Iyo Sky for the spot. And just to make this a bit worse, Shayna Baszler pointed out that Sky was essentially being rewarded after losing her Women’s World Championship match clean at Saturday Night’s Main Event.

Heel stables that menace the midcard and lose a lot of matches are fine, but PFC is far from entertaining or “over” with the fans. Their appearance Monday felt more like a nuisance than anything else.

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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.