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

by Scott Carlson

1. Good Friends, Better Enemies: Part 2

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Please WWE, keep pitting all three former members of the Shield against each other. The opening segment with Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns all of whom held the WWE World Heavyweight Championship within a five-minute span Sunday night clicked really well.

From Ambroses celebration (detailed earlier) to Reigns congratulations, to Rollins kvetching about being robbed, it gelled well and showed that these three guys have long-term roles to play in WWE. Their history together and against each other is only going to become more storied as time passes.

Give Roman credit for countering the stupid, You cant wrestle chants by telling fans to calm down, take a sip of beer and shut their mouths. They kind of deserved that one. And Seth writhing in the ring about how Ambrose stole the title, only for Reigns to note that it doesnt feel good with a wink toward WrestleMania XXXI, was a nice moment.

And all of this is leading to a triple threat match between the trio, which could be a classic. More of this rivalry, please.

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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.