7 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 28)
1. Poor Wrestling
This cant be how WWE wanted to close out 2015, with just a subpar effort up and down the card. Out of seven matches, three ended with rollups, one ended in a countout and another had a DQ finish. One of the remaining two matches featured fans chanting, This is boring and doing the wave. Only the United States Championship match really seemed to gel, and even that took a little bit to get going. Even when the writing has been really bad and fans have been frustrated by poor booking/writing, there almost always has been good wrestling to counterbalance things. You could routinely count on Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens, Neville, John Cena, Dolph Ziggler or someone to put on a good show in the ring. Occasionally, fans have gotten PPV-quality matches on free TV. That has been the saving grace to some of the poor episodes of Raw we have endured. But Mondays episode left a ton to be desired. Maybe everyone had too much eggnog over the holiday weekend. But lets hope this isnt a harbinger of whats to come in 2016.
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.
