7 Ups & 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (10 Jan)

3. An Explanation Would Be Nice

Seth Rollins
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Serious question: How is Seth Rollins able to just meander over to SmackDown and randomly challenge for the WWE Universal Championship? It’s a huge plot hole that needs answering, and no one seemed to care on Monday night.

Rollins clarified what didn’t allow him to do that – it wasn’t an advocate or special counsel. Rollins simply said he “took matters into (his) own hands,” but that doesn’t answer whether he lobbied Adam Pearce or bribed him. Even when Big E came out, the former WWE Champion didn’t ask how Seth hopped brands, which is supposed to be forbidden.

It’s not a colossal deal, but you’d think a company that says, “we tell stories” would want to close a huge plot hole. And really, it’s easy: Brock Lesnar hopped over from SmackDown to Raw to challenge for a world title, so turnabout was fair play, and Rollins got to Pearce and Sonya Deville first to point this out and nabbed a ticket to the blue brand for a one-time match.

See? Easy. But providing that answer is kind of important. Otherwise, why bother having brands if someone can just wander from show to show?

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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.