7 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 29th)
9. This Is The Segment That Never Ends
One of the biggest criticisms that often is levied against Raw is that the opening segment seems to go on forever. You can have a 15-minute opening promo, but if its good, it certainly doesnt feel as interminable. Unfortunately, Mondays opening with the Authority was a 17-minute affair that felt at least twice as long. It started out OK with Seth Rollins showing his chops as a gloating champ, but it quickly devolved into the longest, most drawn-out suck-up in history. Rollins presented J&J Security and Kane with Apple watches, sent Kane on a vacation to Hawaii and bought J&J a new Cadillac to replace the beat-up rental they drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqYSeTg7pI It went on for so long and Rollins did his best Price Is Right description of the car that you felt like something had to happen, but nothing did. It was just an ungodly long segment. Put it this way: If this was during the Monday Night Wars and this led off Raw, everyone wouldve turned to Nitro and WCW wouldve won the night.
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.
