6 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Sep 20)

1. There’s A PPV On Sunday…

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Just a reminder to Raw viewers… there’s a PPV called Extreme Rules on Sunday. You would be forgiven if you didn’t realize it.

Only two matches from Raw have made the card, despite this being the go-home show for the red brand. Both matches, the United States Championship and the Raw Women’s Championship, were plugged, with the US title bout gaining a competitor in Jeff Hardy.

But there was no announcement about Big E defending his WWE Championship (though you have to imagine they’ll make a defense against Bobby Lashley official via Twitter this week), or RK-Bro defending the Raw tag titles, or any grudge match whatsoever.

It’s also worth noting that this PPV is called Extreme Rules, but only one match so far, the Universal Championship match between Roman Reigns and Finn Balor, has an extreme stipulation – an Extreme Rules match.

If you needed a sign that WWE doesn’t care about this PPV at all, there you go.

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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.