6 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Aug 29)

2. An Intriguing Development

Triple H Kevin Owens
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To be perfectly honest, it’s understandable if half the readers hate this moment and half love it. But Triple H showing up to Pedigree both Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins right out of the WWE Universal Championship match left fans with a hell of a cliffhanger ending Monday night.

Stephanie McMahon looked like she had seen a ghost after her husband essentially took over a championship match and dictated the finish himself, then left without saying a word. Does this mean that Hunter is starting his own faction as COO? Or was he simply getting revenge on Roman for beating him at WrestleMania XXXII and on Rollins for being a disappointment to the Authority?

Whatever the case, this didn’t feel like a situation where the people in charge of Raw decided to pull the strings. This felt a little different, so it’ll get the benefit of the doubt for now, until proven otherwise.

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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.