6 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (4 Sept - Results & Review)

1. That Makes NO Sense

Shinsuke Nakamura
WWE.com

Just to be clear, Shinsuke Nakamura battered Seth Rollins at Payback, losing essentially to a fluke stomp, then jumped him after the PLE and further injured the champ’s back.

Then on Raw Monday night, Rollins offered Nakamura a rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship – which Shinsuke said in a video moments earlier that he wanted to wrest from Seth – and Nakamura said, “no.”

Wait, what?

You have a weakened champion who isn’t even medically cleared demanding to defend the title you covet, and your strategy is to decline the match, and then take an impromptu match against another competitor?

Sure, Nakamura lured Rollins out and attacked him once again, but now you’ve given him at least a week to recover before you can get another title match, rather than cashing in on an injury two days prior. That’s not a good strategy. It’s just dumb.

This feud otherwise has been excellent, and Shinsuke has been brilliant in his role. That’s why it’s such a shame seeing poor writing produce an unforced error like 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.