After a lackluster Money in the Bank PPV that featured a couple really good matches but few surprises, WWE needed to ramp things back up Monday night. Thankfully, the company had just the prescription in the form of the Beast Incarnate. But despite the much-anticipated return of Brock Lesnar, Monday night was all about another bruising heel who has been terrorizing the roster (or at least one superstar in particular). No, not Bray Wyatt. Kevin Owens owned Raw Monday night, crushing it on the microphone, battling a former world champion and then crashing a music concert. It was the kind of showing you dont see very often, especially not from someone in his first month on the main roster and fresh off a loss at MITB. Raw also featured a grown man wearing a paper crown and carrying a plunger (one guess whos really entertained by that segment), a dying-on-the-vine Intercontinental Championship feud and another in-show movie preview. We also saw two WWE signature match winners King of the Ring and Money in the Bank ladder match go down in defeat, because reasons. All in all, WWE delivered a really good post-PPV episode Monday night, a show that provided some DVR-worthy moments (because who hasnt dreamed of assaulting a musical guest at some point?) for fans. So what roared and what whimpered Monday night? Lets find out.
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.
