7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (25 Mar - Results & Review)

1. A Meaningless Main Event

Shinsuke Nakamura Jey Uso
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The easy observation here would be to say that the Raw main event was superfluous to the angle that came afterward – and what an angle it was – so it should get a pass.

But there’s no denying that Shinsuke Nakamura versus Jey Uso flopped hard as a match, regardless of where it was on the card. It was a paint-by-numbers, killing-time match where nothing of note happened until the finish came out of nowhere, presumably because they realized that Raw was running out of time and needed to get to the lengthy Rock beatdown of Cody Rhodes to close the show.

And what does this say about the Uso brother versus brother feud, when it is completely overshadowed by Rock/Cody in a way in which it’s barely referenced? Jey felt almost like a spare part here, and he and Jimmy definitely did not feel like a WrestleMania feud.

Maybe they’ll compensate with a new development on SmackDown or on Raw next week, but after Monday’s main event, this feud feels ice cold.

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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.