6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 7)

1. Roman Whines Again

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Uncrowned Universal Champion. Management has screwed him over. Can’t control backstage politics. Haters and doubters.

This isn’t the promo of a no-nonsense badass. It’s the pleadings of a human excuse machine.

Seriously, who thinks this is a good look for Roman Reigns? If WWE is hellbent on giving us Reigns/Brock Lesnar III in the coming months, then at least stop giving the “haters and doubters” (also known as the majority of the fanbase) ammo to dislike Roman more.

Reigns really should be throttled down at this point and cooled off until fans are willing to accept yet another title hunt for him, but the company seems determined to keep him in the picture. Talking about being screwed over by management though just doesn’t work.

At least when Daniel Bryan fought against The Authority, there was a real power struggle going on, not some unseen hand holding Roman down.

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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.