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

3. Return Of The Cruiserweights

If you watched the Cruiserweight Classic Bracketology special previewing the tournament a couple weeks ago, you got a clue that WWE was considering reviving the Cruiserweight division. Hosts Mauro Ranallo and Daniel Bryan and WWE executive Triple H all praised the work of smaller wrestlers while noting that it was far more than just high-flying action.

So after a successful launch of the CWC last week, WWE wasted no time in announcing Monday that the Cruiserweight division would relaunch as an exclusive property of Raw, which makes sense considering that Raw has an extra hour of programming to fill. This also is in line with the previous incarnation of the division, which was exclusive to Smackdown in the 2000s.

There are plenty of talented smaller wrestlers on the main roster now who could benefit from this move, such as Kalisto, Neville and Tyler Breeze, and there are several guys in NXT who could fill out the division. Throw in some of the Cruiserweight Classic competitors who could sign with WWE and you could have a very interesting, competitive division.

Let’s just hope we never have to talk about Cruiserweight Champion Hornswoggle again.

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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.