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

2. Defying The Laws Of Physics

Raw Rey Mysterio Samoa Joe
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This item is not an indictment on Rey Mysterio defeating Samoa Joe – though we could complain about WWE once again employing its usual 50/50 booking strategy to set up another match.

Samoa Joe is billed at 282 pounds, while Mysterio is billed at 170. So, watching Rey roll up Joe and cover him for a three count without an offensive move to stun him was… stretching reality, to say the least. While Mysterio is a grown man, his opponent simply outweighs him by 112 pounds, or 65% more than the smaller luchador.

Simply put, there’s no reasonable way the much smaller Mysterio should have been able to hold down a fully alert and unfazed Joe for a three count. Worse, Joe was close enough to the rope to reach out and grab them easily.

It just all-around looked stupid. If Mysterio had knocked Joe loopy, then it would have been more acceptable, but this was just too unrealistic, even for professional wrestling.

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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.