8 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (28 Nov - Review)

3. A Brawl Too Many

Becky Lynch brawl
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This might be a bit nitpicky, but if you’re going to book two segments that involve wild brawls in the crowd, maybe don’t do them back-to-back.

Becky Lynch cut an entire promo in the audience before Damage CTRL ambushed her on the steps and they brawled all the way onto the concourse before security broke it up. Next up, Rhea Ripley and Mia Yim had a singles match that ended in a DQ when Judgment Day and the OC ran down, triggering a brawl that saw wrestlers spill into the crowd – again.

Things settled down and we got a nice eight-person tag match, but it that wasn’t enough, the first hour also featured the Street Profits entering the arena through the crowd, which is their old route to the ring, but that’s three segments spilling into the crowd, two of which were back-to-back brawls.

None of them is inherently bad, but it’s just a poor layout, which is something the industry leader should be able to avoid.

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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.