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

5. Simple, Yet Effective

Aleistar Black Singh
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Wait, you mean actually having Aleister Black wrestle and win matches convincingly works better than just asking people to knock on his door and pick a fight with him? Get out of here.

Black had exactly four televised matches since April, two in the past 12 weeks. That’s just terrible.

Monday, Black showed up on Raw and began his usual spiel, but he returned on screen a couple segments later to say he was just going to head to the ring to call someone out. Before he could, the Singh Brothers climbed into the ring and called Aleister out, which went about as well as could be expected.

Aleister dispatched with both quickly, using his flurry of quick strikes to take them down, winning via tap-out with a dragon sleeper variant. Hopefully, this will be the new norm, with Black actually competing instead of talking about it for weeks on end.

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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.