7 Ups And 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 1)
3. The Champ Is Here?
Far be it from this column to advocate for more Triple H, but like it or not, he is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, so you would think that he would spend more than two minutes on camera Monday night. The Game briefly appeared backstage to goad Brock Lesnar into attacking Dean Ambrose after the Lunatic Fringe confronted the Beast earlier. The ploy worked, with Lesnar coming out after the main event and hitting an F-5 on Ambrose. But aside from that brief conversation, we didnt see or hear from Triple H (unless he showed up in a bumper that got skipped via DVR fast-forward). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eecua-df5UM Its two months before WrestleMania XXXII and Triple H is the world champion. For better or worse, he needs to be present on camera, mixing it up unless WWE is trying some new deal with Helmsley in a pseudo-ivory tower, above and separate from the peasants who will fight for the right to face him at Mania. But it still felt wrong to have your champ be mostly invisible as youre trying to build interest in the biggest show of the year.
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.
