7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw Superstar Shakeup

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7. Way To Welcome Talent

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Just because a jobber gets plucked up by another roster doesn’t mean that he has to be treated like a total jobber immediately.

Undercard wrestler Curt Hawkins was one of the superstars who moved to Raw Monday night, but he wasn’t exacted feted upon his arrival. The former tag champ was greeted by Big Show, who walked down to the ring, climbed inside… and knocked out Hawkins as he went to hug Show. And then the giant left.

Look, Hawkins is a low-level competitor, a guy who’s there to make others look good. WWE needs guys like that. But making him immediately look like a putz to a guy who has wrestled seven televised matches this year is just a kick in the gut.

That’s not to say that Hawkins should’ve beaten Sami Zayn in his first match on Raw, but maybe not having him be the 2015 version of Heath Slater right out of the gate would have been a smart decision. He’s going to lose plenty, regardless.

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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.