6 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (May 9)

3. No One’s A Winner

Regardless of whether you think Cody Rhodes versus Seth Rollins III is a good idea right now, having the setup come the way it did Monday night was a big miss.

Rhodes challenged Theory for the United States Championship – Cody’s first title match since returning to WWE last month – and the two had a hell of a match going for a while. They battled back and forth, with Theory rising to the moment nicely and hanging with the veteran, right up to the point where Rhodes hit the 1-2 combination of a Disaster Kick and Cody Cutter… only for Seth Rollins to interfere and cause a DQ.

Yes, that got a vicious boo from the fans – which was the goal – but it was extremely frustrating to watch. They took what was shaping up to be an excellent title match and flushed it in the name of angle advancement.

And who looked good out of this? Theory was all but dead in the water. Rhodes’ first title match was turned into an angle. And Rollins looked like a delusional heel after losing two matches to Cody and still coming back like a maniac.

If you were going to do this, then why not book Rhodes against someone like Dolph Ziggler, Robert Roode or Apollo Crews? Or make it a non-title bout.