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

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8. Nuclear Heat

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Attacking hometown sports teams is a tried-and-true tactic heels will use to get heat from a live crowd, but rarely does it work as well as Elias and Kevin Owens’ reference to a former hometown team.

The troubadour and KO mentioned the Supersonics, who last played basketball in Seattle in 2008, and the crowd rained down with boos so loudly that the duo couldn’t talk for several minutes. Eventually, someone must’ve clued them in that although Raw was three hours long, they couldn’t sit there all night and soak it in, so they had to talk over the fans.

It was pretty astounding just to hear how vocal the fans were, and it’s worth an “up” here.

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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.