Monday Night Raw opened a little differently this week no, not with a match, thats crazy talk. It of course opened with a talking segment, but for once, it didnt start with the Authority sauntering down to ringside to bore everyone to tears for 20 minutes. Instead, we got Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan squaring off for a bit with Reigns shedding the nursery rhymes and finally acting like a human being again. (This carried over to other segments and could be its own up.) When the Authority arrived, Bryan got to deliver the line of the night when Stephanie feigned disgust at putting Kane in a casket 10 days earlier. Bryan wasted no time in digging up a Katie Vick reference about Triple H, which was phenomenal for those who suffered through that angle 12 years ago. Letting Bryan and Reigns the guys who are actually wrestling in the main event at Fast Lane banter back and forth and build to their match is what is supposed to happen. It was nice to see this for a change instead of the Authority plugging themselves at the expense of everyone else. Hopefully that will continue.
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.
