6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (April 18)

4. Wedding Hijinks

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If you can’t be amused by the sheer foolishness that was the double wedding segment Monday night, then you might not have a funny bone.

Was it high brow comedy? Absolutely not. Was it sidesplitting funny in the way Vince McMahon likely thought it was? No.

But the goofiness of the segment, with R-Truth masterfully holding stuff together and interjecting jokes throughout, was just right. Tamina objecting not once, or twice, but three times to switch the brides and grooms around until they were back to the original permutations, was just strange enough to work. Having Sasha Banks and Naomi there as Tamina’s real friends was a nice touch.

And then of course, there were the rapid-fire title changes after the ceremony, with R-Truth grabbing Dana Brooke after she regained the 24/7 Championship and saving her.

It all was a decent enough payoff after weeks of shenanigans, and we’ll give it a thumbs-up here.

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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.