6 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw (13 Jul - Results & Review)

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8. An Impromptu Library Of A Match Breaks Out

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When Raw came back from commercial and SmackDown superstar Royce Keys was in the ring, tangling with Jimmy Uso, it felt a bit chaotic and interesting… for about 10 seconds.

Then the reality that it was a Jimmy Uso match with Jimmy on offense sunk in, adn everything slowed down to a labored pace that just dragged until Jacob Fatu arrived, stalked to the ring, and caused a disqualification.

Impromptu matches are bad enough, but this effectively silenced what had been a red-hot crowd to that point, as they clearly could not care less about it, which really isn’t fair to Keys, who followed up a disappointing loss last week to Jimmy with a pin-drop quiet match Monday night.

One would think that if you had a match that was born out of a “heated” brawl that couldn’t be contained, and it was destined to end in a DQ regardless, then they should have just gone all out with a mad dash. Instead, they did the opposite.

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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.