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

5. Demon Forthcoming?

Finn Balor
WWE.com

For the past several months, nearly everything Bray Wyatt has done has generated a “down” in these columns. (The hole dug at WrestleMania and then at Payback was pretty damn deep.) His rambling promos and directionless feuds have been lackluster, to say the least.

But a feud with Finn Balor actually might work, if but for one reason: It could force Balor to break out his “Demon King” character, the body-paint-clad warrior. It’s possible that we might not see the Demon King at SummerSlam, which is less than two weeks away. But if someone is going to (at least in WWE mythology) be able to counter Wyatt’s mystic powers, it’s Balor’s alter ego.

That said, one thing that’s refreshing about this feud is that Balor isn’t giving long soliloquies back to Wyatt. He simply pointed out that Bray talks in tongues and speaks in riddles and basically creeps him out. Then he adds that if Wyatt comes at him, he best not miss, because Finn will finish what he starts. That’s good enough for us.

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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.