7 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (8 May - Results & Review)

by Scott Carlson

1. Rollins One Step Closer

Seth Rollins Finn Balor
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Each day, it seems more and more like the new WWE World Heavyweight Championship is Seth Rollins’ to lose, like it was made for him.

Few superstars have managed to become as Teflon as Rollins, able to lose feuds and still retain his credibility and popularity. Last year, he lost all three matches to Cody Rhodes, a fight pit match to Matt Riddle and his United States Championship to Austin Theory, and he still was one of the biggest stars on Raw.

If you’re going to crown a new world champion to hold a title that’s being billed as a workhorse title, there are few people better suited than Rollins. The Visionary won his triple threat Monday night, then beat back a serious challenge from Finn Balor in the main event, which included a great callback to their SummerSlam 2016 match for the then-new Universal Championship – a Balor bucklebomb into the barricade.

Rollins now heads to Night of Champions to face the winner of the SmackDown bracket, which will be determined on Friday night.

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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.