6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Jan 6)

2. Credit Deserved

Rey Mysterio Andrade
WWE.com

OK, so we blasted the ending of the Rey Mysterio/Andrade match, but we have to give it a pretty big “up” here too for being a really good bout up to that point.

The United States Championship match was just the latest in a series of contests between the two superstars, proving that they have great chemistry together in the ring. Rey really has showed that he knows how to operate within the limitations of his body while still doing impressive things, like pulling a Canadian Destroyer out of nowhere. And Andrade has been crisp since forever.

Until the botched ending of the match, this was cruising along really well and looking like a PPV-quality bout, so we’ll give it credit here.

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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.