7 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw: In Your Face (Sep 14)

3. Send In The Clowns

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This week's RETRIBUTION promo wasn't as excruciatingly awful as the previous one, when it seemed like they'd been pulling angsty lines from their teenage LiveJournal pages, though it was still mostly nonsense.

The masked mob interrupted The Hurt Business' celebrations following Cedric Alexander's loss to Ricochet. Spouting off clichéd guff about WWE's lies, betrayal, and greed, with the male speaker sounding like a comedian's Braun Strowman impersonation, they told the roster to enjoy their last days in oblivion (?!) - because they're gonna gut your reality. Grrrr!

With material ripped straight from a bad nu metal album's lyric sheet, these guys sound impossibly lame. It's tough to take them as a threat to WWE's corporate status quo when they willingly comply with corporate edicts telling them to stay on Raw, use the company's garbled version of the English language, and only repeat talking points that a thousand worked shoots haven't covered already. Also, guys: we can see who you are through those balaclavas. The jig is up.

At least they aren't talking about locusts anymore.

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Andy has been with WhatCulture for eight years and is currently WhatCulture's Wrestling Channel Manager. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.