7 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 15)

4. Remembering Dr. King

WWE almost always puts together nice video packages for holidays, but they did something a little different for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday.

Last week, Raw was in Memphis, site of the National Civil Rights Museum, where Dr. King was assassinated 50 years ago. WWE had the foresight to send several superstars, such as Sasha Banks, Alexa Bliss, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Titus O’Neil and Apollo Crews, to the museum and record their reactions.

The result was something more natural and real than the slickly produced videos we usually see. Sure, someone probably helped them with their spots, but it felt more organic with them experiencing parts of the civil rights movement (such as Banks talking about Rosa Parks and Titus about Jim Crow laws).

Normally, this would be glossed over as neither up nor down, but WWE deserves credit for this one.

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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.