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

4. Hyperbole City

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Did you know that Sundays event is shaping up to be the biggest Money in the Bank PPV in history? Seriously, Michael Cole said it, so it must be true!

Look, the announcers are part hucksters, trying to sell fans on how wonderful the main event is going to be and how much fun were having watching another great episode of Raw. But for the announcers to tell us that this is going to be the best MITB PPV ever is supremely frustrating. Is this looking to be a solid event? Yes. Best ever? Come on.

This goes along with repeatedly calling several matches WrestleMania-worthy, which is another annoying habit suddenly. Its OK to hype matches and a PPV, but its also OK to use positive language without using over-the-top rhetoric. Dial it down a bit, guys.

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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.