6 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Jan 17)

4. The Best Possible Outcome

Seth Rollins Bobby Lashley
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When it was announced that the challengers for the two world titles were going to square off on Raw, you knew there had to be a screwy finish here. There’s no way either Seth Rollins or Bobby Lashley could afford to take a loss Monday night.

And that’s exactly what we got, with the two having a pretty good back-and-forth match that ended when Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander jumped Lashley and tried to take him down, only to fail miserably once again.

But that wasn’t the end of it. After failing last week to get their hands on Rollins, the Usos jumped out of the crowd and landed a double superkick on the Visionary, dropping him to close out Raw. That at least showed some continuity from last week and served as a warning to Rollins that Roman Reigns’ reach extends beyond SmackDown.

While not great, it certainly wasn’t bad, and it kept both challengers strong heading into the home stretch before the Royal Rumble.

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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.