6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 23rd)
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7. Seven Men And A Ladder
Its really tough to hate the idea of Daniel Bryan, Bad News Barrett, Dolph Zigger, Dean Ambrose and Luke Harper involved in a serious feud over a title. That sounds like a diehard wrestling fans dream come true. Unfortunately, this feud includes two more men, has been centered on various wrestlers stealing the Intercontinental Championship and has been played for laughs more than for a serious competition. Despite being the champ, Barrett has probably looked the weakest, save for last week when he finally laid out several men with the Bullhammer elbow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNiYi3clWhM In truth, this very well could be an excellent match, reminiscent of the old TLC matches between the Dudleys, Hardys and Edge & Christian. Six of the men in the match can go, and if given time to develop, it could produce a couple WrestleMania moments. But (like many of the matches on this card) the build-up has been atrocious, and that makes it tough to get invested in this bout any more than to acknowledge that it will probably be one of the better matches of the night.
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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.
