8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 2nd)

7. Little Naitch Rides Again

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Longtime wrestling fans might remember back to 1999 in WCW when Charles Robinson became the personal referee for the Four Horsemen and his idol Ric Flair, even donning a robe like the Nature Boy and wrestling a match.

But even if you didn€™t know that piece of history, WWE made sure younger fans were educated on those facts Monday night, because Robinson was the referee in the Women€™s Championship match between Charlotte (Flair) and Natalya, which ended in a Montreal Screwjob sendup when Charlotte slapped the Sharpshooter on Nattie. Robinson called for the bell, even though Natalya never tapped out.

As horrible and stupid as rehashing a 19-year-old angle (once again) was, at the very least, it gave us the Flairs€™ personal referee once again. And with a longtime connection between Robinson and Flair (Charles even reffed Ric€™s last WWE match at WrestleMania XXIV), it€™s a rare instance of history and continuity. Fun stuff for longtime fans.

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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.