7 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Mar 22)

3. A Return Match No One Wanted

Elias Braun Strowman
WWE.com

Oh look, a new song about how stupid Braun Strowman is! And a rematch from Fastlane. Lucky us!

Yup, we were “treated” to a duet from Elias and Shane McMahon on Monday night, as they serenaded the audience with a song about how dumb Braun was, just moments before he came out to obliterate Elias. The match was even more one-sided than it was at the PPV.

Worse, when Braun headed outside to do his Strowman Express, they actually played a chugging train sound effect. Seriously. Of all the stupid things we could get… this was certainly one of them.

And then they made the godawful WrestleMania match between Strowman and Shane official. So last year, Braun got a last-minute Universal Championship match against Goldberg. This year, he gets to face a different 50-year-old in McMahon. From battling for a top title to battling a guy who called him stupid and dumped green slime on him. That’s quite the downgrade.

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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.