6 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 28th)

5. A Pull-Apart (Yawn) Brawl

Another of WWE€™s favorite fallbacks for ways to build interest in a feud or match is to have a massive pull-apart brawl between participants. It looks like there€™s so much hatred that the match can barely stand it €“ or so it€™s supposed to seem.

At times, this can work really well toward selling a match. But in other cases, it can be really boring and forced. Monday€™s brawl between Triple H and Roman Reigns of course was supposed to be the former, drawing people into their world title feud that can€™t be contained. Instead, we just saw everyone else on the roster play second fiddle to the two wrestlers, serving as faceless soldiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t8jaXgodpc

The only fun part of the brawl was Reigns hitting a no-hands tope, but beyond that, it was a pretty boring (from an excitement perspective) battle. There just didn€™t seem to be a big hatred between the two.

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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.