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

3. Better Than Counting Sheep

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At what point does a wrestler take a Superman Punch from Roman Reigns, kick out of a pinfall at 2 and take a necklace off, boasting that they are wearing Kryptonite, so the punches aren’t as effective?

It’s a better deal that what we got Monday, when Roman threw so many Superman Punches that we lost count when the match got to the midpoint. After a while, it almost became a joke, as he chose to use that punch over and over and over to the point where you almost had to wonder whether he had anything else in his arsenal.

Now, we all know Reigns is a perfectly capable wrestler, so this isn’t a criticism of his wrestling. But throwing the same push over and over doesn’t help dispel that myth. And it just becomes silly when the 10th punch goes flying and we’re nowhere near done the match.

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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.