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

4. Why Buy The Cow?

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It’s admirable when WWE tries to give us clean finishes to matches, as opposed to a series of screwjobs, distractions and rollups. However, there are times that a non-decisive finish is perfectly appropriate, and even preferred.

Case in point, a champion versus champion match Monday pitting Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose against United States Champion Kevin Owens ended with Ambrose hitting Dirty Deeds and scoring a clean pinfall over KO. That would then segue to Chris Jericho returning and laying out Owens with a Codebreaker to close the show.

So on the first (and possibly only) show with two midcard champions, Raw gave the match away for free and let it have a decisive finish. Why? No one would have blinked if Jericho walked out, climbed into the ring and attacked for the DQ, or if he climbed onto the apron, causing enough of a distraction that Ambrose won.

Why give away a champion versus champion match for free like that?

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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.