7 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Sep 27)

6. At Least It Was Brief

Karrion Kross vs. maga chud
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We’re not about to get on the Karrion Kross bandwagon here, and his matches aren’t really getting much of a reaction, but at least WWE has finally figured out that the way to do something with Kross is to have him win.

Karrion toppled Jaxson Ryker in a short match that saw both men trade strikes and kicks, grappling around clumsily. Kross got the upper hand with an Exploder suplex, then hit his Saito suplex and locked in a really crappy-looking Kross-jacket submission for the tap-out win.

Still, Kross is getting backstage vignettes and is now winning matches, so they’re somewhat building him up, though it remains to be seen if they figure out how to actually heat him up and have him mean something.

Maybe they’ll finally remember they have Scarlett on the payroll and use her.

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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.