7 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Raw (June 22)

1. Orton/Show Snoozer

Randy Orton Big Show
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Oooh look, a Big Show/Randy Orton rivalry in 2020! The youth movement is afoot.

Whereas Paul Heyman pushed younger talent who had been overlooked for a long time, Monday we were treated to an in-ring promo between Orton and Show with Randy and Ric Flair talking about how he’s the greatest wrestler ever, Show calling him a parasite while doing his “pissed-off giant” routine, and Orton threating to kill the legend.

Yeah, the semi-retired Show arguing with the underperforming Orton just isn’t doing it. Presumably, we’ll get a Show/Orton match, maybe at Extreme Rules, that will end with Orton punting Show back to the inactive list while the announcers talk about how this is the most vicious and focused we’ve ever seen the Viper.

And everyone will yawn.

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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.