6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 11)

4. Stop Teasing Us

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Unless WWE and the Hardys have figured out a way to either resolve or skirt the legal dispute with GFW over the Broken gimmick, all the hints that have been dropped are just teases.

Matt Hardy posted a brief video on his YouTube page last week in his Broken character, using the word “woke” instead of “broken.” That’s similar to a Raw Fallout video last month where he and Jeff Hardy used “woken.” And then during Raw, Matt was acting “bizarre” enough that the announcers commented on it multiple times.

If this is leading to a gimmick change for the brothers, that’s one thing, but we’ve thought that the Broken universe was coming to WWE before, only to have it dissipate. If Matt and Jeff are going to tease it, fans should expect that it actually will happen rather than get a hint every month or so.

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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.