6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (July 25)

3. One More Beatdown

You can’t deny that fans are behind Riddle right now, so you can get away with a lot.

That means you can get away with repeated beatdowns from Seth Rollins, and we got another from the Drip God Monday night. After the six-man tag match, Rollins came down to ringside and pummeled Riddle, stomping him once, then placing him on the ring steps and delivering another stomp.

Hopefully, all of these beatings are leading to Riddle exacting a measure of revenge at SummerSlam, because it’s been pretty one-sided lately. However, when fans continue to rally behind a babyface, you can have them face these types of attacks and then finally have the heel get their comeuppance at the right moment.

Here’s hoping that Riddle evens the score against Rollins at SummerSlam. Otherwise… what was the point of all of this?

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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.