8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 5)

3. Welcome Back Big Show

Big Show Seth Rollins
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Let’s get a positive out of the way right away: Kudos to Big Show, dropping to less than 400 pounds for the first time in 20 years. At his age, he should be commended, and he probably added a couple years to his career if he wanted to continue in the ring.

However, Show’s return to Raw for the first time in five months was simply to serve as a hitman for Kevin Owens to soften up Seth Rollins (for Chris Jericho). Show acted as a tweener, shoving Rollins around, but ultimately standing up to an increasingly angry Owens, chokeslamming him and leaving KO for Rollins.

We know that Show is in the twilight of his 20-plus year career, but it’s sad to see that he returned for his only his second match on Raw since March (if you can believe that) and was cast as a heavy for the Universal Champion and then just left to let Rollins pick up the pieces. Sure, he isn’t going to be a major focus of Raw, but his return should have had a little more gravitas than that.

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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.