6 Ups And 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 5th)

1. 20 Minutes Well Spent

Normally, a 20-minute opening promo is both dreaded and dreadful. Fans could be lost for the rest of the night as the air gets let out of the balloon. But opening Monday with Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman seemed to have the exact opposite effect, pumping up the Boston crowd. Sure, the recap packages dragged things down a bit, but Heyman is masterful at rallying fans to his cause, calling out the Undertaker (€œHell in a Cell is your match? My ass!€) and delivering his take on their HIAC match later this month (€œOne of you won€™t walk out€ that€™s not a prediction, that€™s a spoiler.€). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNwJ3PsHQXw Throw in Big Show wandering down to get annihilated yet again and you have an awesome segment that just makes Brock look even more like a killer €“ if that€™s possible €“ and put fans in the right frame of mind.
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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.