7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Raw (May 25)

1. Paging The Marketing Department

Last week, this column criticized WWE for billing the upcoming Edge/Randy Orton match as the “Greatest Wrestling Match Ever” because they are clearly overpromising something they can’t deliver.

Monday, it was on full display again, complete with the branding in lights as the announcers repeated it ad nauseum. But what made this truly awful this week (hence its return to the list) is that Edge sold the match by talking about how he once was great and could hang with all the greats, a five-tool workhorse in WWE… but he now doubts himself.

“I don’t know if I can do any one of those things anymore,” he mused. Edge basically admitted that he’s not sure if he can deliver in the ring against a tactician like Orton – which is a great storyline for this match, by the way – but the marketing geniuses are billing it as the greatest wrestling match ever.

What a huge disconnect.

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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.