8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 14)

5. Cena And Styles Make It Official

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Kudos to John Cena and AJ Styles for keeping the intensity without giving one or the other too much of an advantage Monday night. Cena made a couple small jokes, but he didnt turn into a standup routine.

Cena bragged about his 15 world championships and talked about how AJ was largely kept out of WWE despite being wholly deserving, but still won more titles worldwide than Cena has in WWE. And Cena dangled a surprise to AJ: two match contracts, one for one-on-one with no Club, and another with the Club at ringside.

Of course, Cena egged AJ into signing the contract pitting just the two men against each other (can you blame him?). Regardless of the outcome, it should yield some momentum for both men. But once again, AJ and Cena did a nice job taking this feud forward for the third week in a row.

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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.