9 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (Sept 26)

by Scott Carlson

1. Honorary Uce Earns His Stripes

AJ Styles Sami Zayn
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If you missed the SmackDown segment that saw Sami Zayn stripped of his Bloodline T-shirt and bestowed with an Honorary Uce shirt, just stop reading now and track it down. It was probably the highlight of the month, non-wrestling-wise.

Zayn and Solo Sikoa came to Raw Monday night to confront AJ Styles, who engaged in a Twitter exchange with Sami over the weekend. Zayn and Styles locked it up in a really good match that reminded you just how talented Sami really is, with the Honorary Uce hanging with Styles the whole way.

Solo stayed out of things until the closing moments, when he planted AJ with a uranage on the apron, allowing Sami to hit a Helluva Kick for the win. Seeing Zayn with all the confidence and swagger was really fun, and it’s going to be tremendous to watch what happens next on this journey.

For AJ, things went from bad to worse when Judgment Day made one last attempt to recruit him, then beat him down when he flipped them off. It was all set up really nicely, and it went off perfectly.

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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.