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

3. A ‘Deeply Personal’ Rivalry

We all know WWE loves to have amnesia when it comes to its own history, except when it’s beneficial to remember every excruciating detail. And we know WWE is predisposed to unleash a metric ton of hyperbole when promoting matches.

But to call the AJ Styles/Undertaker feud a deeply personal feud in a way we’ve never seen before involving Taker is not hyperbole. It’s just a blatant lie.

Think about UT and his brother Kane. That entire rivalry and friendship, which has spanned more than two decades, has covered nearly every angle imaginable: an affair, arson/murder, a brother burned in a fire, brothers banding together, a literal burial, resurrection and so forth.

Styles has been taking potshots at Undertaker’s wife, Michelle McCool, but even in the realm of going after Taker’s wife, AJ isn’t the most “deeply personal.”

That distinction would belong to Diamond Dallas Page and the infamous Invasion Era stalker angle with Taker’s former wife Sara. Yes, the less said about this period, the better, but a couple lame barbs by Styles don’t compare to stalking a man’s wife.

Stop trying to make this some epic feud, when it’s tepid at best.