7 Ups & 4 Downs from WWE Raw (5 May - Results & Review)

3. Part Of The Furniture

When Penta debuted in January, he felt special. Different.

Fast-forward four months and Penta has become normalized and part of the weekly WWE churn.

Monday night, Penta had a decent match against JD McDonagh, seeking revenge for the Judgment Day man costing him his Intercontinental Championship two weeks earlier (with Penta returning the favor by interfering in a Judgment Day tag match last week). The match was fine, but it was a fair amount of back and forth with copious outside interference from Finn Balor, Carlito and Chad Gable. That seemed like an awful lot for a match between a guy lauded as a major star and an undercard wrestler who hasn’t won a televised singles match since February… 2024.

Penta has been feuding in some fashion with the Judgment Day since well before WrestleMania. He lost at Mania when Dominik Mysterio won the IC title, then lost a title match on Raw. Now he wins a bout against the low man on the Judgment Day totem pole and gets another Intercontinental Championship match at Backlash.

It’s starting to feel like Penta is little more than a featured player in the mid-card rather than a major force. And honestly, that’s fine, but WWE and some of its fans have been insisting otherwise for months, and things are playing out exactly how many figured.