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

5. Corbin’s A Giver

Contrast the terrible casting of Mustafa Ali as an underdog babyface in his match against Bobby Lashley with Akira Tozawa’s clash with Baron Corbin.

Tozawa hadn’t been treated as a serious wrestler in forever, and yet he had Corbin off-balance for the entire match, running circles around the much bigger man and bouncing off him at top speed. Baron ate a missile dropkick, a hurricanrana, suicide dive and other speedy offense before catching a diving crossbody and turning it into the End of Days for the win.

In doing so, Corbin made Tozawa look more like a threat than Ali did in his match. To be fair, Lashley and Corbin are very different heels, but it’s evidence that there was a path to making Mustafa look better, as Tozawa came out of Raw looking good.