8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 1)

1. Wins And Losses Matter!

A popular theme that has popped up multiple times in recent years is that wins and losses don’t matter in professional wrestling anymore. If a guy goes out and entertains the fans, then that is more important than if he loses every match.

Now, in some aspect, that’s true, but we would point to Exhibit A, Jinder Mahal.

That’s why it was so refreshing to hear GM Kurt Angle discussing a possible Raw Tag Team Championship match with Golden Truth and telling the team that their won/loss record was good enough to merit a title shot. Goldust acknowledged that people don’t think they’re legit contenders and that they wanted to prove themselves, setting up a tag team turmoil match for next week.

Look, we don’t need to get into actual won/loss records, but fans aren’t complete idiots. If a wrestler or tag team loses every televised match, then fans are not going to buy them as a serious challenger suddenly. Angle spoke the truth, which was almost surreal to hear on WWE TV.