6 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 1)

by Scott Carlson

1. Styles Goes Clubbing

AJ Styles The Club
WWE.com

Really, it was only a matter of time before AJ Styles abandoned his babyface ways.

Styles clearly wasn’t happy losing his United States Championship match against Ricochet, and at the urging of the Good Brothers, he decked the champ and turned heel for the first time in a good while. The Club reunited to beat down Ricochet and leave him laid out in the middle of the ring in convincing style.

Seeing AJ, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows standing tall to close out Raw was a nice change of pace, and if WWE really follows through here, they could have an interesting dynamic with a real heel stable here.

Of course, that depends on whether this new regime follows through on stuff like that or gets bored after two weeks.

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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.