7 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (24 June - Results & Review)
Raw manages to offer a bit of everything, but also provides the good and bad of it all.
WWE Raw took viewers on a yo-yo ride Monday night, rising and falling repeatedly throughout its three-hour journey.
The show couldn’t seem to make up its mind whether it was a wrestling show, a melodramatic soap opera, or a spooky-adjacent mystery. Typically, WWE likes to offer its viewers a little bit of everything, a buffet-style approach that tries to meet everyone’s needs, and it usually works pretty well.
But when a decent amount of the in-ring action is subpar, the talking segments fall short, the comedy isn’t funny, and the most serious, consequential moment of the past several weeks is brushed off as just another segment, that’s going to significantly hamper the show.
The Wyatt Sick6’s debut last week was visually stunning and shocking, but it also set expectations that it would weigh heavily throughout this week’s show. After all, the group decimated staff and wrestlers alike and destroyed the backstage area. Instead, it was treated as creepy and was sold as less of a threat than a Brock Lesnar-Undertaker pull-apart (in that there was more security for them than for the Wyatts).
Overall, Raw certainly wasn’t dull, but parts of it were tough to swallow. Those low points might level out as stories evolve, but this wasn’t WWE’s best foot forward.
Let’s get to it…