7 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Raw Christmas Night (Dec 25)

2. Still Treading Water

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Someone needs to figure this out: Does WWE have Finn Balor in a holding pattern for a reason other than a lack of anything better to do?

If they have a storyline that they’re waiting to set up (such as waiting for a returning superstar or another wrestler to be freed up), then that’s one thing. But if they’re throwing Balor out on television week after week to have one-off matches with no real storyline and no real plans for the immediate future, then that’s just really a shame.

Monday, Balor came out and added another tick mark in Curt Hawkins’ loss column, making him 0-147 and winless in 2017. While once in a while you can toss a guy out there with nothing else to do because he’s popular, if you do it for a month straight, it’s a problem.

Bear in mind that Balor defeated AJ Styles on PPV two months ago. Today, AJ is WWE Champion, and Finn is wrestling Bo Dallas, Curtis Axel and Curt Hawkins.

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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.