6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 29)

1. Mutual Respect, To A Point

Contract signings in WWE very rarely end amicably, even when both wrestlers are ostensibly babyfaces. Case in point, the WWE Universal Championship contract signing between Seth Rollins and AJ Styles ended with one man flat on his back.

Styles and Rollins took turns complimenting and criticizing each other, showing respect by noting why each thought they were better than their opponent. AJ foreshadowed things by saying that when you want something badly enough, you’ll do unexpected things. So when Rollins hoisted the title as a response to a handshake offer, Styles did just that and blasted the champ.

The two had a brief brawl that ended with AJ hitting a Phenomenal Forearm that drove Rollins through the table in the ring, leaving the champion laid out.

Memo to WWE: Styles doesn’t need to go “full heel” here, just let him have an edge to him, which he can justify as needing to beat the younger Rollins, who knocked off Brock Lesnar a month ago. There’s no reason to just make AJ into a full-fledged villain suddenly.