7 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 4)

3. ‘Ref, You Suck!’

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The crowd nailed this one.

During the tag team main event on Raw, Braun Strowman entered the ring to help out Kurt Angle, only for the ref to stop him from hitting Baron Corbin. When he did, the ref disqualified him and awarded the match to Corbin and Drew McIntyre, because Braun wasn’t the legal man in the ring.

Um, what?

When was the last time you’ve seen this happen? Tag team matches breaking down and leading to all four competitors brawling has been a staple of WWE bouts for a long time now, so this was just ridiculous. Yes, sometimes you need to enforce little-enforced rules to fit a storyline, but come on.

That was completely lame and could have been handled way, way better.

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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.