7 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 28)
6. Rollup City
Thank God Big E won his match by hitting his finisher. Otherwise, WWE might have never broken out of its rut. Raw opened with three straight matches (Kevin Owens/Neville, Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch, Kofi Kingston/Kalisto) that all ended with rollups. Two of the matches (Owens/Neville and Kingston/Kalisto) were really short affairs, and the Banks/Lynch bout ended after the usual Team BAD interference. Three matches, three rollups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSrTfXeHr4 When a show opens with three extremely similar finishes, that just shows a lack of creativity and laziness. WWE can do better than that.
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.
