6 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 22)

by Scott Carlson

1. Heyman Puts Over Balor

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When you absolutely, positively have to get someone over, you send in a person you can rely on to get the point across. One of those people you do that with is Paul Heyman.

Heyman is gifted on the mic. He can turn a boring feud into a clash of the Titans just with his promos. Monday night, he put over Finn Balor strongly and without hyperbole or sarcasm. Paul E. called Finn the most talented wrestler on the roster and said something most fans probably could agree with: He was most looking forward to a possible Balor/Brock Lesnar matchup.

If you were waiting for Heyman to turn on the snark or for Brock to show up and intimidate Finn, you would have been disappointed. This was Paul simply showing some deference and respect to Balor by giving him kudos and getting out of the way. It was an interesting twist from the evil genius that is Paul Heyman.

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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.