6 Ups & 5 Downs For WWE Raw (7 July - Results & Review)

WWE Raw - Rollins targets babyfaces, Goldberg confronts Gunther.

by Scott Carlson
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If you want to judge Monday Night Raw on the main thread of the entire show, then you have to find that WWE accomplished its primary goal of getting Seth Rollins’ stable over as a serious heel threat to the Raw roster.

Rollins’ crew set the goal to rid themselves of three major babyface threats: Sami Zayn, Jey Uso, and Penta. By the time Raw ended, one man was confirmed out of action indefinitely, another’s status was unknown, and the third had been defeated but likely will be able to rebound next week.

Beyond those show-long threads, Raw functioned as a hodgepodge, with some pretty good in-ring action and some pedestrian, botchy wrestling. The build for this weekend’s Evolution was terribly disappointing for the Women’s Tag Team Championships, while WWE produced a home run of a video package for the Women’s World Championship match between Iyo Sky and Rhea Ripley.

There were a few moments where fans will have differing views, but nothing that was blow-away great. Evolution feels like a middling show at best, while Saturday Night’s Main Event seems as though it could tip either way on the night. That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement coming out of the go-home Raw ahead of this weekend.

Let’s get to it…

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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.