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

2. Still A Bridesmaid

Shinsuke Nakamura Ricochet
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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.

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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.