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

3. Making Promises

Setting aside Seth Rollins calling his match against CM Punk in two weeks as “the biggest fight in our industry” right now, the Visionary did deliver some strong promises in advance of their 6 January match.

In a sit-down interview, Rollins called Punk a hypocrite for trashing WWE after he left when he actually needed it to be relevant. He ranted about Punk and Roman Reigns being hand-in-hand at Survivor Series and how that scene made him want to throw his remote through the television. His goal in this upcoming match is to make everyone see the hypocrisy and to excise Punk like a cancer.

And that’s where the promise came in. Punk and Rollins have stepped up the physical confrontations, with one more face-to-face coming next week. But Monday night, Seth promised that fans would see a side of him that no one had seen before, a more violent and raw side when he fights Punk.

The reality is that Rollins has now made a promise that this is going to be a PLE-quality match, perhaps even WrestleMania-worthy, as everyone had invested a lot of energy and capital into it. Rollins deserves the benefit of the doubt here, hence the positive marks as they ramp up the hype. But if it fails to deliver on the night, the fall-off will be spectacular.