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

by Scott Carlson

1. Hometown Energy Burst

Becky Lynch Bianca Belair
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You can call it a fired-up New York crowd. You can say it was because WWE was home at Madison Square Garden. You can say that talent was fired up with a new direction possibly coming.

Whatever the case, there were several subtle glimpses of different energy on Raw Monday night, both from the fans and from the wrestlers. You heard Jimmy Smith mention how the Bloodline had six belts among them. Alexa Bliss finally gained a stated purpose. The 24/7 Championship was nowhere in sight. General silliness was kept to a minimum with a hard sell for some SummerSlam matches, including a pull-apart brawl between Becky Lynch and Bianca Belair.

Whether you liked it or not, you can’t deny that Raw was a bit different in presentation on Monday night, and the energy level was definitely turned up, along with some subtle changes.

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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.