6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (Aug 9)

4. TikTok Savior

Oh boy, we’re getting more Reggie on our TV, aren’t we?

Leave it to WWE to stumble a** backwards into something they couldn’t script, and then still know that they’ll screw it up somehow. WWE announced that a TikTok of Reggie’s leap over the top rope before his match had somehow garnered 33 million views, a staggering number that ensures that the company keeps Reggie on our TV for at least a few more weeks.

In the meantime, we were treated to Akira Tozawa and R-Truth sneaking up on Reggie in disguise backstage, only for the champ to leap from atop a stack of cases to the floor to avoid them.

Just keep in mind if you’re tired of seeing Reggie in a few weeks or a couple of months: If you’re one of those 33 million TikTok viewers, you’re part of the problem.

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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.