7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 14th)
The hotly anticipated Raw debut of an up-and-comer. Plus, Triple H dances.
Monday Night Raw was the final stop on the road to Night of Champions save for a quick respite on Smackdown with WWEs flagship show holding its now-annual season premiere. The idea that Raw, a 52-week live program, has a season premiere is comical in some ways, but WWE needed to find some way to play up the program against a Monday Night Football double-header thats sure to cut into Raws already-dwindling ratings. Raw also needed to bring things home for Night of Champions, the one PPV where all titles are on the line. WWE did a nice job building to the big matches for this Sunday, as even matches that were made official Monday night had been building to this money for at least a week or so. It didnt feel like anything was rushed or forced, save for the PPV kickoff match, and even that has a bit of a backstory. We saw John Cena wrestle twice, which is fine considering that he has been putting on solid matches with just about every opponent this year. We got a huge Raw debut that was funny on one hand given the performers stature and it being a debut and really cool on the other. And we saw two title matches that more or less set up title defenses at NOC. So what strutted to victory, and what Flair-Flopped to the mat? Lets get to it