8 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 28)

5. Braun’s Uphill Battle

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Well, it’s not for the WWE Universal Championship, but Braun Strowman appears to have a WrestleMania-worth feud facing him.

Braun battled Drew McIntyre until Baron Corbin interfered, forcing a DQ and leading to a 2-on-1 mugging, with the heels abusing Strowman and leaving him knocked out after a double chokeslam on the steel steps.

There’s no guarantee that every angle rolled out Monday will find its way into WrestleMania, but it’s fun to watch some of these storylines be presented and seeing what shakes out during the next two months.

For now, it looks like Braun has his work cut out for himself, which is just the way he likes it.

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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.