7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 15th)
4. Village Idiot > King Barrett
Please, someone stage a coup and overthrow King Barrett. The crown is proving to be every much of an albatross for him that the Intercontinental Championship had been. After losing to R-Truth on the Money in the Bank kickoff show Sunday night, Barrett came out Monday looking to redeem himself. Truth, his unwitting (and somewhat witless) opponent, preceded him out wearing a paper crown and bedsheet while carrying a plunger. The self-proclaimed King Whats Up mistook Byron Saxton for Jonathan Coachman (actually a funny bit) and then flushed (no pun intended) any humor by pulling a dated Diffrent Strokes reference (Whatchoo talkin about, Willis?) when informed he was facing Barrett. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz_En2302as Despite not being aware he was in the match, Truth managed to win in 30 seconds with a rollup, as Barretts woes continued. What made it worse was hearing Bad News try to talk about how prestigious winning the King of the Ring tournament was and that it was Truth making a mockery of it. Most would probably say losing to a guy wearing a bedsheet and carrying a plunger in 30 seconds makes more of a mockery of KOTR than anything.
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.
