6 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 14th)

5. The Sounds Of Silence

Remember when crowds would loudly chant €œGoldberg!€ at Ryback? As obnoxious as that might have been for the Big Guy and WWE, right now, they€™d probably take it as opposed to the reaction (or lack thereof) that he got Monday night.

On Raw, Ryback squared off against Sin Cara, with Kalisto at ringside. The Big Guy toppled Sin Cara in what could best be described as an extended squash, with Ryback hitting two Shellshocks on him. During the match though, the crowd was fairly quiet, not really reacting aside from the occasional €œboo€ at Ryback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxzvmahOSI

Things didn€™t improve when Ryback took the mic after dispatching of Sin Cara and telling Kalisto that €œsize matters€ and challenged him to a United States Championship match at WrestleMania. So we€™re really going to get a one-on-one bout between these two based on Ryback simply saying he€™s bigger and issuing a challenge?

We might hear crickets in Dallas in three 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 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.