6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (Sept 19)

1. Dominik On The Mic

Dominik Mysterio Damian Priest
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If you were being prepped for the biggest push of your career, don’t you think you’d really try to up your game, especially if you knew you had a wooden delivery on the mic?

While you can’t expect someone to improve overnight, Dominik Mysterio needs help desperately and immediately. His showing on Raw Monday night was horrid. And yet, the crowd heat for him was off the charts.

Mysterio tried to cut a promo after his fellow Judgment Day cohorts warmed up the crowd, but the jeering audience drowned him out several times. When he finally got his lines out, it sounded like he was reading them off a cue card under the hard camera. It was painfully bad, especially after Rhea Ripley did a nice job setting him up.

Dominik needs help, because standing next to his Judgement Day family, he looks uncomfortable and unconvincing. The fans saved the day by booing him out of the building, but he can’t count on crowd reaction to save him from having to deliver a credible performance on the mic.

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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.