6 Ups And Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 9)

2. Ziggler Plays Fall Guy Again

If Bray Wyatt is indeed gearing up for a feud with the Undertaker, then he absolutely needs to win every match convincingly. Otherwise, he won€™t be viewed as anything more than cannon fodder at WrestleMania XXXI. (Then again, booking him to lose a major feud to John Cena probably didn€™t help build him up.) But sacrificing Dolph Ziggler two weeks in a row is just ridiculous. These two have great chemistry in the ring and could actually have a really good feud. Dolph rode his Survivor Series victory to an Intercontinental Championship reign to close out 2014, but his 2015 has been nothing but being pushed down the card yet again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvyfbIwxII The eternal optimist would say that perhaps Ziggler is being pushed down hard so he can rise up against the Authority and overcome them. But until that actually happens, history is going to prove the skeptics right€ but they would probably love to be proven wrong.
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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.