6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 11th)
2. A Happy Homecoming For Ambrose
Theres an unwritten rule that whenever WWE television emanates from a wrestlers 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. Thats 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 dont 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 Ambroses hometown.
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.
