6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 11th)

2. A Happy Homecoming For Ambrose

There€™s an unwritten rule that whenever WWE television emanates from a wrestler€™s hometown, he will get a match on TV €“ and typically lose. Booker T. used to lose whenever WWE was in Houston, for example, and Bad News Barrett lose a United States Championship title match in England last month. But occasionally, the hometown boy will have a strong night in front of their devoted fans. That€™s exactly what happened with Dean Ambrose Monday night. The Cincinnati fans wasted no time in chanting for Ambrose, nearly derailing the opening segment. Dean would make his way out for the opening match and win a handicap bout against J & J Security. So far, so good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmeJGILZImM After the main event of Randy Orton versus Seth Rollins broke down, Ambrose and Roman Reigns stormed the ring to clear it out, with Ambrose getting the final attack (on Reigns, no less) to stand tall to close the show. You don€™t typically see the same guy in a multi-man match standing along at the end of Raw on back-to-back episodes, so this is either foreshadowing something at Payback, or it simply was a nod to the fact Raw was in Ambrose€™s hometown.
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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 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.