8 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (19 June - Review)

1. And Now Everyone Else Is A Chump

Money in the Bank brawl
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There’s no denying Logan Paul’s star power and natural charisma as a wrestling villain. He clearly has something here and could be a major player in WWE for some time to come.

But in one fell swoop Monday night, he made the entire Money in the Bank field (minus Damian Priest) look like a bunch of jobbers who are just going to be human pinballs bouncing around in the ladder match next week. Paul announced he had weaselled his way into the MITB match with a phone call (rather than qualifying like the other six men), which triggered a promo train and a brawl that ended with Logan taking out the entire field and preening on top of the ladder.

On the one hand, this was good in that it made you hate Paul all the more. But it also made every other man in that match look like a complete goober. Could you see Roman Reigns, Randy Orton, John Cena and Edge cutting those mindless promos and then lying on the floor selling a punch for a full minute so Logan could celebrate?

At this point, Logan Paul almost has to win Money in the Bank, because everyone else in the match looks like cannon fodder rather than a potential future world champion.

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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.