8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 26th)
3. Carting Kane Off
Hindsight is always 20/20, but even a blind man could have seen that breaking up the Wyatt Family last year was a mistake. It just made no sense to take a strong faction and dissolve it without any plans for any of the other members aside from Bray Wyatt and he looked weaker without his army. WWE somewhat rectified that by reuniting the family and adding Braun Strowman to the mix, but it wasnt until a 24-hour period that the Wyatt Family really felt like a threat to WWE. Between the end of Hell in a Cell and Monday Night Raw, the Wyatt Family proceeded to decimate the Undertaker and carry him off, then do the same to Takers brother, Kane. Mondays abduction helped further the rumored angle that Undertaker and Bray will square off in a Survivor Series elimination match next month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1eE1SS3gvw The Wyatts mugging of Kane also did more to rehabilitate the Big Red Monsters character than anything that happened during his world title program with Seth Rollins. Associating Kane with his storyline brother automatically elevates him in fans eyes. He goes from that goofy loser Director of Operations who sometimes dons a mask, to the brother of the most dominant superstar in WWE history. Thats transformation by association.
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.
