6 Ups & 6 Downs from WWE Raw (23 June - Results & Review)

1. Same Old Seth

The more Seth Rollins talks, the more this supposed super-heel faction feels like it’s going to live or die based on whether Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed can keep physically intimidating babyfaces.

Rollins came out to cut a show-opening promo Monday night, and while there were a few positive developments, the reality is that you could play a babyface Seth promo from 2023 or a heel promo from 2022, and it all would sound the same. He’d dress the same, come out to the same sing-along entrance theme, and prattle on about being a visionary and a revolutionary, and he’d take credit for Roman Reigns’ existence as a major force in WWE.

This isn’t to say that Rollins should have done a 180 on his persona after turning heel at WrestleMania 41, but how are fans supposed to accept that he’s leading a faction of the future when he’s talking about his accomplishments as the first NXT Champion 13 years ago. For context, Triple H formed Evolution in 2003, and 13 years prior, he was just starting to train as a wrestler and was five years away from making it to WWF. He was also five years younger than Rollins is now.

The problem is that there still is great potential with this stable, but Rollins needs to get away from the sing-song theme and iconography of the past several years and actually be a different character, one that actually feels like he’s leading a stable into the future, not the same guy who had Buddy Murphy and Austin Theory serving as his disciples in the ThunderDome.