7 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 23)

2. Sami And Kevin Show Earns High Marks

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If you didn’t crack up a little watching Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens verbally assault GM Kurt Angle, check your pulse.

Zayn and Owens took turns mocking Angle, stating that Stephanie McMahon had his manhood locked up, forgetting how many kids he had (they neglected to count Jason Jordan), and then noting that Angle forgot about Jordan for much of his life too.

It was the kind of antics that made them thorns in SmackDown leaders’ sides, and KO and Sami just kept it going in their first full night on Raw. It was highly entertaining, and it pushed Angle’s buttons, which could produce some great moments if worked through properly.

And just a special note for how great Zayn is as a smarmy heel. Here was a guy doing next-to-nothing on Raw a year ago when he went to SmackDown and then eventually turned things around to being a central figure who was in a prominent match at WrestleMania.

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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.