7 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 29th)
6. It Keeps Going And Going
Maybe the nWo comparison isnt all that far off For the second week in a row, Monday Night Raw ended with the Authority putting a lengthy beatdown on someone who was in the WrestleMania XXXI main event. Last week, Brock Lesnars knee was decimated with a steel chair. This week, Roman Reigns was beaten by the four Authority members who arent major shareholders in WWE. That beating lasted for seven minutes. Seven. We saw three matches that combined probably didnt run that long. Why do we need seven minutes of four guys beating down one man? And then after putting Roman through a table, Bray Wyatt comes down to deliver Sister Abigail. https://youtu.be/qRo55Oa6fBc?t=2m57s Maybe thats supposed to show how tough Reigns is, but looked more like the Authority was ineffective at putting Roman down. And it was eerily similar to the old nWo beatdowns that went on forever at the end of Nitro. Those got old quickly too, so that much hasnt changed.
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.
