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

4. Getting The Shaft

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Another week, another round of Roman the Aggrieved.

After making his entrance to rousing boos – or “What a reaction,” according to Corey Graves, the anointed crowd apologist – Roman Reigns got into a back-and-forth with Stephanie McMahon, where the Raw commissioner told him to calm down, but he lost his opportunity at Money in the Bank.

Announcer Michael Cole made sure to tell us that Roman believes he’s getting shafted (no, seriously) by management, which has it in for him, and he’s the uncrowned WWE Universal champion.

Once again, none of that is really resonating. Repeating over and over that management screwed Reigns over when it hasn’t overtly been done doesn’t make Roman a sympathetic character, no matter how much Cole says it.

But hey, maybe Jinder Mahal can get fans to cheer for Roman.

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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.