6 Ups And 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 5th)
6. Third Times A Charm?
A large part of booking professional wrestling correctly is knowing when to pull the trigger on something, and when to pull the plug. You want to strike when things are their hottest to cash in on fan interest in the product. If you wait too long, then the reaction and interest can be greatly diminished. That is exactly what were seeing with the Dudley Boyz and New Day feud. The Dudleys returned to great fanfare, getting a huge reaction when they showed up on the scene. They immediately set their sights on the WWE Tag Team Championships. While New Day is extremely hot right now, a three-week hotshot of the titles to one of WWEs biggest tag teams of all time wouldnt be terrible. But instead, weve seen two DQ finishes, setting up a third match at Hell in a Cell that is much less-anticipated than their Saturday bout at Madison Square Garden which was the right time to pull the trigger if WWE was going to switch the titles. One has to hope that we get a definitive finish at HIAC finally.
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.
