7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 20th)

6. A REAL Babyface Champ

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Memo to Vince McMahon: When Dean Ambrose came out to open Raw, that was what a babyface pop sounds like. The loud, lusty boos that had to be edited out later for Roman Reigns were not what you want with a good guy.

Ambrose got to take a nice victory lap to kick off Raw, soaking in a You deserve it! chant, coining a possible new nickname for himself in light of Seth Rollins The Man and Reigns The Guy The Dude, and talking about how getting beat up night after night was all worth it because he could now be called champion.

It looks like Ambroses reign as champ is going to last at least a few weeks, and it also looks like hes going to enjoy being the dude with the title for a change. After coming oh-so-close in multiple matches against Rollins and again against Triple H earlier this year, standing tall like this has to feel good.

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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.