6 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 14th)
1. Lovable Loser Loses
When someone writes the post mortem on this era of WWE someday and gets to the section on how no one except for John Cena and Brock Lesnar ever really became a larger-than-life superstar, this should serve as a perfect example.
Dolph Ziggler interrupted a rambling promo from Triple H to rail against the Authority and stand up for himself. He actually did a good job of communicating how he wasnt afraid of their threats to fire him, that he was going to keep coming at them. He called Stephanie McMahon an egotistical, tyrannical, idiotic person before getting slapped. Stephanie also called him a failure earlier.
So, given how he was dubbed a lovable loser by Triple H and a failure by his wife, how did Dolph respond in his match? He lost. Its a self-fulfilling prophecy for WWE. The bad guys bad-mouth the roster and no one ever stands up to them. When someone does, they get fired or punished or slapped or insulted or beaten, or all of the above.
But what almost never happens is the Authority getting comeuppance. Were not talking about the Authority getting fired or beaten to a pulp. But could someone (not named Cena or Roman Reigns) get one up on them verbally? Or beat them for a week? Would it have killed them to have Reigns distract Triple H so Ziggler could beat him and get revenge for being emasculated week after week?
Dean Ambrose actually got one up on Triple H, and then promptly lost his title match at Roadblock and quickly and quietly moved on, back to Brock Lesnar. So he too failed at getting vengeance.
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Perhaps only wrestlers who have been dubbed worthy of carrying the WWE banner can best the Authority. And WWE wonders why no one is really rabidly popular with the fans like Steve Austin, Mick Foley, Shawn Michaels, The Rock, Undertaker and other guys who actually beat authority figures in the past.