8 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (10 Mar - Results & Review)

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8. MSG Cage Lore

WWE Raw CM Punk Seth Rollins Steel Cage
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When you’re holding an event in an arena where you have a metric ton of history, using it to your advantage isn’t just the right move; not using it would be criminal malpractice.

WWE dug into its vault for some Madison Square Garden steel cage match lore, pulling out the 1975 bout between Bruno Sammartino and Ivan Koloff, the 1983 war between Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and Don Muraco (with a Mick Foley reference!), and a 1988 battle between Randy “Macho Man” Savage and the “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase.

Presenting those matches added a bit of heft to the main event later that night, and it teased fans that they might be witnessing some history later on. What they got was a really good cage match with a memorable closing angle, but kudos for using the cage lore to their advantage.

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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.