6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 14)

by Scott Carlson

1. Rollins, Balor: Good At Wrestling

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Another newsflash: Finn Balor and Seth Rollins are really good professional wrestlers.

The two former WWE world champions put on a great showing to close out Monday Night Raw for the United States Championship, with both men going at it. We got a great little segment with each man countering the other in rapid succession: Rollins went for a stomp, which Balor turned into a Slingblade; Finn attempted a shotgun dropkick and ate a superkick; Rollins went for a frog splash and hit knees and was rolled up.

Later on, a buckle bomb attempt into the barricade (the same spot that ended Finn’s Universal Championship run before it started) was countered into a shotgun dropkick, and a Falcon Arrow was turned into 1916.

Yes, there was a bunch of shenanigans involving Judgment Day and the OC, but the match itself was really good and had some smart callbacks, so we’ll give it a hearty “up.”

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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.