8 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 12)

4. A Stone Cold Endorsement

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Maybe WWE is taking this push of Seth Rollins seriously.

Rollins overcame the odds and won his WWE Universal Championship back Sunday night, and in the process, won the fans over to his side throughout the match. On Raw Monday, he got a huge endorsement from one of WWE’s biggest stars, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.

Doing an interview that allowed Austin to promote his upcoming show as a smart move, but it also allowed Austin to delve into the current action, putting over Seth Rollins pretty strong. Austin noted that he saw Rollins dig down deep to make everyone believers, himself included. As Stone Cold said, he finally understand who “Seth Freakin’ Rollins” is.

This isn’t going to suddenly turn Rollins into the second coming or anything, but an endorsement like that from Austin can only help bolster the Universal Champion going forward.

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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.