8 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 3)

1. Who Still Wants To See Triple H?

The Undertaker Shawn Michaels
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WWE is going full hard sell for this “Last Time Ever” match between Triple H and The Undertaker. Unfortunately, their efforts Monday night made fans more likely to want to see a completely different match.

Shawn Michaels came out to weigh in on the match and predicted that his best friend Hunter would emerge victorious. Big surprise. But then Undertaker came out to offer a rebuttal, and he and Michaels engaged in a verbal battle that gets its own write-up later.

However, their back-and-forth did nothing to plug the HHH/Taker match. In fact, it did more to make this fan wonder why we were seeing Triple H when the obvious money match would be luring Michaels out of retirement. The promo between UT and HBK did more to turn this writer off to HHH being in the match than make it a must-see affair.

It’s a serious misfire on WWE’s part, but thankfully, they’ll have a few weeks to drum up more interest.

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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.