7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 16)

3. Just One Showcase Match

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This point has been raised before and it will be again and again until we get it: fans deserve to have an honest-to-goodness show-stealing cruiserweight match on Raw.

What we’ve continuously gotten are three-minute (or less) specials that primarily utilize WWE-style offense and/or serve to merely advance angles and set up matches for 205 Live on Tuesday nights. What we don’t get are the memorable high-flying cruiserweight bouts we used to get in WCW or even during WWE’s Cruiserweight Classic last summer.

Monday night, we had three planned cruiserweight bouts. One ended due to a pre-match attack, one was a brief match that set up a match for the next night, and the last was going well until an angle involving Alicia Fox reared its ugly head.

The bout between Cedric Alexander and Brian Kendrick was going really well and looked to fill this showcase, and then Foxy showed up and interjected herself, marring the match itself.

Can we please get just one cruiserweight match that showcases the best that this division can offer, without any hijinks or sideshow antics?

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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.