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

1. Match For Sake Of A Match

Enzo Amore
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Once upon a time, WWE came up with a semi-clever name for a Christmas-themed hardcore match, calling it a Miracle on 34th Street Fight. Get it?

But like so many things with WWE, the company took a decent idea and ran it into the ground… then backed over it a few times and tossed dirt on it before exhuming it and lighting it on fire.

We got another installment of the holiday street fight Monday night, with Enzo Amore and the Zo Train taking on Cedric Alexander, Mustafa Ali and Akira Tozawa. Unlike previous matches where the “weapons” were either used to good effect or as comedy (think food fight), this bout opted to have wrestlers slammed onto empty wrapped cardboard boxes and whipped into a Christmas tree in the corner.

It was just ridiculously silly, with a nonsensical stipulation adding nothing to the match, other than a candy cane-striped kendo stick. It was a Christmas-themed match to have a Christmas-themed match that served more as a bathroom break than anything else, not something you want people to associate with cruiserweight bouts, but that’s what we got.

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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.