7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 19)

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6. Unintentional Bad Timing

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During Raw, WWE aired a spot in conjunction with NBC Universo to honor American labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. It was a nice piece, as these segments typically are.

Then, moments later, Braun Strowman annihilated Mexican luchador Sin Cara, flattening him with a powerslam.

There’s nothing wrong with Strowman winning the match, as he needs to start moving on to beating established members of the roster (unless he’s going to start doubling up on jobbers), but the timing of that match couldn’t have been worse. It was so oddly timed that it was almost poor comedy. Even separating the two by a couple more segments would’ve worked fine. This just felt like someone either was lazy in laying out the show or was trying to make a bad joke.

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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.