8 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 23)

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8. Fiend-ified Opening

Seth Rollins The Fiend
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Normally, this writer will skim right by the “Then, Now, Forever” signature that opens each episode of Raw. It’s a three-hour show, and anywhere you can save viewing time, you take it.

But this time, the opening came up, and immediately distorted, with the video discoloring and jumping, and the sound warping. It became somewhat clear what was happening, but it wasn’t until the “Forever” part came up and The Fiend’s face burst onto the screen that it was confirmed.

The Fiend has infiltrated the opening signature of Raw. Now that was a cool little thing that doesn’t have any bearing on the storyline, and if you missed it, it doesn’t affect your ability to follow things.

But if you caught it, it was a cool reward for catching Raw from the get-go and shows that Fiend is everywhere.

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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.