7 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 24th)
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5. Breaking The Mold
You can forgive wrestling fans (and the average person) if they dont know how long it takes to sculpt and cast a bronze statue, but you have to assume fans are damn fools if you expect them to believe that Triple H and Stephanie McMahon had a lifelike bronze statue of Seth Rollins created in less than 24 hours. Rollins declared his desire to be immortalized with a statue on last weeks Raw, so its conceivable that Triple H felt confident enough to commission a statue immediately. But sculptors estimate that a life-sized bronze statue takes about seven weeks: one week to make the rubber mold, six weeks to cast into bronze. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-wBdtNFJk Obviously, WWE wasnt going to go for realism with something that only served as a plot device, but it did raise a big question mark when they rolled out the statue just one day after Rollins victory. Not a huge issue by any means, but it just felt off.
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.
