6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 24)

4. Look Out… Below?

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One more quick note about Braun Strowman’s beatdown of Kalisto.

It does bear mentioning that we should applaud WWE’s effort to continue Strowman’s feats: destroying Roman Reigns two weeks ago and destroying a ring with Big Show last week. But his “destruction” of Kalisto involved locking him in a Dumpster and pushing him off the stage – a three-foot drop.

After the visuals of “Reigns” being shoved off a loading dock while attached to a stretcher and then in an ambulance that Strowman tipped over, along with the ring implosion last week, somehow a Dumpster being shoved off a three-foot-high stage didn’t quite measure up. We saw the New Age Outlaws shove a Dumpster containing Mick Foley and Terry Funk off a platform that was twice as high back in 1998.

Yeah, so… points for effort, but no.

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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.