8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 15)

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8. Ryder Picks Up Hometown Win

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Hey, you’ve got to take the positives wherever you can get them.

Zack Ryder got his first Raw singles match in three years Monday night (almost to the day), which he won, defeating Mike Kanellis in mere seconds by hitting a Rough Ryder right away. What’s more, this match was in Ryder’s hometown of Long Island, New York, which makes it even better for the former tag champ.

While this won’t really go anywhere, we’ve got to give Ryder his props for picking up a ‘W’ on Raw, even against the hapless Kanellis.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.