6 Ups And 4 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 18)

1. Disjointed Nature

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As mentioned before, it was difficult to determine what felt off about Raw, but when you consider how disjointed things felt, you realize it wasn’t a tangible thing, but just more of a feeling.

The main event six-woman match ended abruptly less than five minutes into the bout due to a brawl, which promptly ended so Stephanie McMahon could make an announcement about the Royal Rumble. The men’s three-on-three bout ended quickly after Dean Ambrose was injured.

The cruiserweight #1 contender’s match was solid but unspectacular, a departure from the fatal four-way bouts held prior to this contest. Finn Balor and Hideo Itami, and Asuka won matches against glorified jobbers, and Seth Rollins toppled Jason Jordan, but they were the only matches of “significance” that took place.

Sure, there were two big announcements for the Rumble, but it just didn’t feel like a really good episode, just a program that didn’t step in it a lot.

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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.