7 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 19)

4. Zayn Takes A Hike

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Sunday night, Sami Zayn did what Mick Foley said no one thought was possible: last 10 minutes in a match against human sloth Braun Strowman.

So how did they follow up this momentous occasion on Monday? Foley sent Zayn home to keep him away from Strowman, noting that Sami had to be 100 miles away from the arena when Braun was looking for him.

That was a brilliant idea: Take a guy who (in storyline) did something people thought was impossible and stand up to a monstrous bully, then follow that by having him be protected by an authority figure and essentially hide in another city.

And WWE wonders why no one ever really gets built up with casual fans.

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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.