6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (22 Jun - Results & Review)
King and Queen finalists square off, one set of tag titles change hands.
If you were hoping that WWE returning to the United Kingdom would artificially boost Raw and make it feel like a red-hot product again, you were sadly disappointed by the end of this week’s edition of the red brand.
Raw emanated from London’s O2 Arena, but the crowd was rather subdued compared to previous English audiences, and really, it’s not like WWE provided them with the best possible product to rally behind.
The show peaked in its opening moments with Oba Femi facing off against Jey Uso, and then slid downhill in a mess of wrestling and angles that varied from good to decent, to bland, to boring. Raw might be the red brand, but outside of Oba, Monday’s program was several shades of beige.
The wrestling was decent but mostly forgettable; you’d be forgiven if you forgot half of what happened in the ring by the end of the night. That’s pretty much par for the course these days with WWE, but even the matches that qualified as “good” were immediately memory-holed.
For a go-home show before a PLE, this was a disappointing effort in some ways, but the two big Night of Champions matches – the King and Queen of the Ring finals – got plenty of spotlight and delivered on making fans want to see both contests, so in that regard, mission accomplished.
Overall, chalk this up as another beige edition of Raw.
Let’s get to it…