7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 25)
2. Creative Team, Take Notes
Seriously, WWEs writers would do well to watch every aspect of the Rocks return to Raw Monday night. You know damn well that they didnt script out what the Great One was going to say, that he was just going to freestyle much of it, from his interactions with Big Show and Lana to his rapport with the fans and New Day in the ring. Did some of what Rock said miss the mark? Of course, no one can strike gold with every line. But the point is that Rock fired off tons of material and not just the old standbys in his conversations with Show, Lana and New Day. Compare rooty, tooty, booty with llama penises. Which phrase do you think fans were more apt to chant at the tag champs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPPSeJodH4M All of this should serve as a reminder to the writing team that their own performers are capable of coming up with and delivering more convincing material than what creative crafts for them. The ultra-scripted stuff is rarely remembered beyond a week, unless its for the wrong reason. Scripts would not have yielded, If you smell what the Rock is cookin.
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.
