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

5. What’s The Point Now?

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So Riddick Moss is now apparently just defending the 24/7 Championship in regular matches on Raw.

What? Wait, why? Huh?

Moss defeated Cedrick Alexander in a match Monday night, defending the title he’s now held for a record 29+ days. It’s at least his third “traditional” title defense, and it makes this entire situation baffling.

The 24/7 title was unveiled as a less brutal cousin of the old Hardcore Championship, meaning that it could be defended anywhere, anytime. That resulted in guys like R-Truth, Drake Maverick, Mike Kanellis and Jinder Mahal having hilarious adventures with the title, trading it back and forth on a golf course, on a plane, in a hotel bedroom and even in a doctor’s office. Celebrities would win the title for a hot minute by rolling Truth up, only to lose it back to him.

It was a fun adventure, and some of the segments were among Raw’s most entertaining moments. But now, Moss is solely defending the title in regular matches, thus negating the entire “24/7” concept. It’s basically the modern-day European Championship – a tertiary title for lower-card wrestlers to fight over, without the one redeeming quality that the 24/7 Championship had: comedy.

LAME.

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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.