8 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (18 Sept - Results & Review)

2. Still A Bridesmaid

That high-profile SummerSlam match against Logan Paul sure elevated Ricochet to a new level in WWE, didn’t it? From jobbing to a talented part-timer to getting laid out by the next sacrificial lamb to Seth Rollins.

Ricochet can say all he likes in his pre-match promo that he’s “nobody’s pawn,” but then he goes out and becomes a pawn in Shinsuke Nakamura’s “mindgames” with Seth Rollins, thereby making him both a liar and a dope simultaneously.

And WWE wonders why people like Ricochet can’t truly get over despite being insanely talented.

How are fans supposed to receive the One and Only when he loses to a guy who’s had fewer than 10 matches, then disappears from TV for a month, only to resurface and become Nakamura’s punching bag as Shinsuke goads his true target, the world champion?

Ricochet has all the trappings of a geek, no matter how amazing he is in the ring, and fans will receive him in that manner. He deserves better, and one can only keep hoping for better for him.