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

by Scott Carlson

1. Best Friends Collide

Chris Jericho Kevin Owens
WWE.com

Chris Jericho’s face turn was about as sudden as you could ever imagine, with Y2J going from being a joking heel to the toast of the town in two appearances.

Of course, getting ambushed and then screwing over your best friend as revenge will help with that, but it was clear that the Chicago faithful were more than happy to rally behind Jericho and jeer Kevin Owens Monday night. Owens divulged that he never was friends with Y2J, that Jericho was just a tool he used to hold onto his Universal Championship.

We all knew this breakup was coming, and while we can gripe about KO’s loss last night, looking ahead to the former “best friends” facing each other at WrestleMania for the United States Championship has to excite wrestling fans. Both men are gifted on the mic – and they showed that they’ve got the chops Monday – and both can deliver in the ring, so this could be a show-stealing bout in four 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.