6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (8 Jun - Results & Review)

3. Luchadores Shine

WWE Raw Rey Mysterio Penta
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When looking at the card for Raw on Monday night, there was next-to-no doubt that Rey Mysterio versus Penta would deliver on what was promised in this first-in-WWE matchup.

While Mysterio might be well past his prime, the lucha legend still can go, and he and the Intercontinental Champion blitzed through a fast-paced match of aerials, counters, and near-falls. Rey had a few great spots, including dodging a Penta baseball slide and immediately hitting him with an Asai moonsault to the floor, and a baseball slide into a sunset powerbomb, driving Penta into the barricade.

Penta refused to die, hitting the Penta Driver for a near-fall, surviving a poisonrana (which looked gnarly for Rey too), kicking out of a 619/Drop the Dime, and finally blocking a frogsplash attempt and getting the Mexican Destroyer for the win.

The match graphic essentially promised a high-energy, fun, athletic contest, and that’s exactly what they delivered.

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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.