8 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 25)

by Scott Carlson

1. US Title Coveted

Ricochet Drew McIntyre
WWE.com

After Brock Lesnar left the arena Sunday night, it meant that AJ Styles and his United States Championship was once again the top prize on Raw. With Lesnar’s sparse schedule, he and the WWE Championship won’t be around very often, leaving wrestlers without a top title to seek.

After Styles’ cohorts took out his challenger Humberto Carrillo Monday night (and by the way, Carrillo still gets zero reaction, so WWE needs to address that), wrestlers started coming out to challenge AJ for the US title. Ricochet, Randy Orton, Drew McIntyre and Rey Mysterio all made the case for getting a title shot.

Naturally, this led to a fatal four-way match between the quartet, all for a shot at the United States Championship. Mysterio won a good match, and then went on to win the title shortly thereafter.

The in-show angle was a nice focal point for Raw, and it took four upper-level wrestlers and stuck them in contention for the US title, making it a prize to be had.

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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.