6 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Raw (March 6)

1. A Streak Gets Broken

For a good while now, we’ve been able to count on Chad Gable to have highly entertaining TV matches against a variety of opponents, but he’d end up losing each of those bouts.

That ended Monday night, when he defeated Baron Corbin… in a less-than-good match.

Obviously, the angle surrounding it – down-on-his-luck Corbin doing the Maximum Male Models’ bidding in an effort to get a modeling contract – was the bigger story here, but there’s no reason that we couldn’t have gotten a serviceable wrestling match out of this.

Worse, the action Monday night was pretty basic all the way across the card. Even Sami Zayn/Jimmy Uso, which you would have thought would have ruled, was all about the angle. Matches like Omos/Dolph Ziggler, Piper Niven/Nikki Cross, and Finn Balor/Johnny Gargano were all forgettable bouts that left no real mark on the show at all.

There’s nothing wrong with wrestling serving the purpose of advancing and angle, but three hours of it? With nothing really standing out? That’s a pretty big fail.