7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 9)

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6. Comedy Club

Seth Rollins Raw 10 July
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For the past several months, Seth Rollins has been on a meteoric rise to the top of the Raw card through both outstanding matches and solid promos.

But Monday, he devolved into telling jokes. Bad jokes. Rollins intimated that Drew McIntyre does what Dolph Ziggler tells him because he knows a secret – which involves a sheep. Yes, seriously. And Ziggler’s promo about Rollins’ nicknames and how many wrestling matches the Intercontinental Champion won at Kent State wasn’t exactly inspiring either.

On its own, this wasn’t terrible. And Rollins has been on such a tear that it hopefully will just be a small bump in the road. But whenever WWE writers turn to bad humor, you have to worry a bit. Rollins delivered his lines well (including the “I’m a baa-aaa-aaad man!” one), which makes you think that the writers will fall back on it again.

And again. And again. And that’s what really worries here.

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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.