7 Ups And 10 Downs From WWE Raw's Season Premiere (Sept 30)

by Scott Carlson

1. How To Use Legends

Ric Flair Hulk Hogan
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After watching Undertaker and Goldberg stumble around in 100-degree heat at the last Saudi Arabia show, and seeing Shawn Michaels p*ss away his legacy in an embarrassing tag match last year at Crown Jewel, you had wonder what WWE would do with this fall’s show.

We got our answer Monday night, when Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair pretended to square off for one last match, only for The Miz to announce a five-on-five tag match with the two Hall-of-Famers serving as coaches for the respective teams. The bout will probably eat up a large chunk of Crown Jewel and feature bigger names (with Seth Rollins, Randy Orton, Rusev and King Corbin already confirmed), while providing local fans with glimpses of the two legends at ringside.

As much as this writer has bashed (and will continue to bash) WWE for continuing its blood money relationship with Saudi Arabia, this was at least a good call for using some of the company’s biggest names.

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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.