7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (25 Mar - Results & Review)
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3. Hard To Criticize, But…
How do you go about giving negative marks to a match where Ricochet does a bunch of stuff that no one else can do?
Unfortunately, in 2024, great wrestling exists on almost every street corner, so seeing a highly entertaining match might be more than enough, but we’ve seen that with Ricochet for years. It’s just always come in fits and starts.
Even the premise of the match was a bit suspect: Ricochet was allegedly “on a roll” after defeating JD McDonagh in a gauntlet match (left unsaid: he then immediately lost the next match to Bronson Reed) and then toppled Dominik Mysterio last week. Monday, he draws… McDonagh again?
The match itself was the usual high-caliber affair from both men, albeit a bit soulless as they quickly moved through a Spanish Fly, brainbuster, avalanche Poison Rana, and a Recoil in the span of a minute all with two counts. Ricochet’s counter of a Devil Inside with a Canadian Destroyer was also truly something to behold.
But this still felt hollow overall, not just because there wasn’t a ton of emotion behind it, but mainly because it’s hard to really invest in Ricochet after seeing this pattern repeatedly through the years. He’ll dazzle fans like this for a few weeks, disappear for a while, job a bit, get reheated, lose, repeat.
Call this more disappointment in what should be rather than an indictment on the match itself.