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

6. Backstage Promo Train

Edge Damian Priest
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It isn’t bad enough that we get in-ring promo trains. Now we’re getting them backstage too.

We caught up with Dana Brooke & Reggie talking to Edge & Beth Phoenix, with Reggie walking off to prep for his match with Omos. Then Beth talked up Dana for a second. The Hall-of-Fame couple then ran into Damian Priest to chat Royal Rumble strategy before Phoenix received a note to meet Maryse in the ring. And finally, the couple walked off and Priest was approached by Kevin Owens.

KO made sure to reference the “Damian” side of Priest – which Edge also mentioned, because every interaction with the United States Champion must revolve around this sinister personality he can’t control, not the fact that he’s been the secondary champion on Raw for five months.

It’s nice in one way that they crammed all of this into one segment rather than spreading it out over two or three, but it was just ridiculous when you consider we got a promo train to open the show, and then had an interruption during the KO Show later on.

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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.