6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 28)

by Scott Carlson

1. RKO Outta Nowhere

Randy Orton Ricochet
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When it was announced that Ricochet and Drew McIntyre were having a rematch from last week, this writer sighed.

The contest was extremely good, and it served to trumpet McIntyre’s return to action after two months away. However, Ricochet remained listless, and losing didn’t help his cause. Losing again Monday night would have only made him out to fit the dreaded WWE trope of the “undersized underdog.”

Monday’s match teetered back and forth, with Drew controlling much of the match, but Ricochet hanging around and kicking out of everything the Scottish Psychopath threw at him. Then suddenly, Randy Orton raced out of the stands to nail an RKO for the DQ.

The interference ended the match effectively, with neither man having to suffer a loss that he couldn’t afford, and it furthered the semi-pointless Crown Jewel “feud” between Team Hogan and Team Flair.

Plus, Ricochet took the RKO like a champ. Maybe he and Orton should feud after Crown Jewel. It at least would be something different, right?

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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.