6 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 26)

by Scott Carlson

1. King Ricochet Advances

King Ricochet Raw
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Had he not won, Ricochet’s match with Drew McIntyre would have been a difficult “down” to write: an excellent wrestling match with the wrong outcome.

But the right man won Monday night, with Ricochet picking up a hard-fought, improbable victory in the first round of the King of the Ring tournament. The One and Only kept fighting back against the bigger McIntyre, overcoming a reverse Alabama Slam and a sitout powerbomb to hit a Recoil and a 630 splash for the win.

By winning, Ricochet set himself up for another underdog role in a second-round bout against Samoa Joe. Given fan reaction to Ricochet during the match and after his big win Monday, we could be seeing more of the same next week.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.