6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 21)

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5. Resetting An Era

Way back at WrestleMania 28, Triple H and The Undertaker battled in what was called the “End of an Era” match, a Hell in a Cell bout refereed by Shawn Michaels and sold as the last vestiges of the Attitude Era.

Six-plus years later, the two grizzled veterans will go one-on-one one last time at Super Showdown in Australia this October. If both men are up to it, it could be a pretty decent match and at the very least, it should provide the Melbourne crowd a spectacle.

So why is this a “down?” For starters, the match was announced before Triple H came out, so he wasn’t making news, just selling the match, which it turns out that Vince McMahon simply booked. That’s quite an odd way to resurrect an End of an Era.

Triple H’s promo was technically fine, but the entire reasoning for the match was completely off. Hunter talked about how that End of an Era match changed everyone.

Except, that’s not entirely true. Undertaker has wrestled at every Mania since 2012, and even competed at Greatest Royal Rumble in April. Triple H has taped up and become The Game plenty of times since then – at least 19 televised matches since then. They’ve competed at every WrestleMania since WM 28, just not against each other.

This wasn’t a bad moment, but the execution was off. HHH could have framed everything differently and it would have worked fine. But this missed the mark.