6 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Aug 31)

2. Never-Ending Feuds

The Hurt Business
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If you’re watching Raw and you feel like you’re watching a rerun or like you’ve seen certain matches before, you aren’t alone.

Numerous rivalries on Raw have been going on for several months, to the point where they only seem to wrestle each other, leaving for very repetitive matches. Consider: Street Profits versus Andrade & Angel Garza; Seth Rollins & Murphy versus Rey & Dominik Mysterio; IIconics versus Riott Squad; Bianca Belair versus Zelina Vega; Apollo Crews, and Ricochet & Cedric Alexander versus the Hurt Business.

Those feuds have been going on in some fashion or another for at least a couple months. In some cases, the rivalries have been going for three or more months. While there’s nothing wrong with a feud – a good one – lasting for three months, when there are so many of them going on at the same time, it makes the show feel repetitive, leaving you bored or disinterested, even if there’s a good product on TV.

In this case, Raw has been beleaguered by poor writing and lacklustre wrestling, and this lather, rinse, repeat feuding has only made it worse.

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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.