7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Raw (March 23)

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5. Ummm… Why?

Aliester Black
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Quick question: Have Bobby Lashley and Aleister Black even appeared on camera together in WWE?

There clearly is no issue between them; they’ve never interacted on Raw; and they certainly have never been in the same match (save for the 2019 Royal Rumble). So why are they fighting at WrestleMania 36?

Yes, matches get put together randomly for PPV all the time, but this literally came out of nowhere. It isn’t like Lashley knocked on Black’s door to pick a fight with him, or Black ran afoul of Lana backstage or something. It just was announced that this match is taking place at Mania.

We don’t ask for a lot as fans, but even just a simple deal of Lashley popping up on screen after Aleister’s squash win Monday and saying he’s picking a fight with him and then announcing the match would have at least made sense.

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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.