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 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.