6 Ups And Downs For Last Night's WWE Raw (March 2nd)

5. Still No Taker

WWE is keeping its powder dry when it comes to its biggest WrestleMania commodity, the Undertaker. The Phenom has been absent from WWE since last year€™s Mania, and despite being directly challenged more than a week ago, Taker remained silent Monday night. This left Bray Wyatt to deliver another eerie, yet entertaining, promo, insisting that Undertaker €œmock(s) me with all this silence€ before evoking a fiery imagery. That set the scene for him to light a casket on fire. But when it became obvious that no gong was going to sound, you could hear the air get sucked out of the arena and the fire went out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM2wft3wa0w A feud implies that there are at least two warring factions, a competitor and his opponent. There isn€™t much of a feud if Wyatt has to keep coming out and delivering monologues with nothing to play off of other than the mythology of the Undertaker. That might work better than any other person, but at some point, there needs to be an actual confrontation.
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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.