7 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 29th)
4. Looks Like A Rerun
Repetitious moves are a mixed bag. Hitting your opponent with the same move over and over can either elicit a tremendous cheer or a deafening boo. Case in point, Cesaro hitting someone with 10 rapid-fire European uppercuts often gets a pretty good reaction. Brock Lesnar launching John Cena with 16 German suplexes brought the crowd to its feet. But when Scott Steiner hit Triple H with a half-dozen overhead suplexes at Royal Rumble 2003, the crowd turned on him (and the match) because it was all Big Poppa Pump had in the tank. The lesson is to not go to the well with the same move over an over unless youre getting the desired reaction. Otherwise, it looks like youre a one-trick pony. Sadly, Darren Young missed the memo as he hit three (count them, three) butt-drops on prone opponents and then followed them up with Hogan-esque backrakes. Yes, backrakes in 2015. What makes this worse is that Young is part of a tag team and was actually in an eight-man tag match, which means he wasnt competing in a 20-minute singles match. He only needed a few moments of offense, and half of his moves involved that unconvincing flurry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3-30_jK27c Hopefully someone will talk to him and have those moves either minimized or eliminated altogether (especially the backrakes).
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.
