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

6. Booking Via Cell Phone

Even if you aren’t super-amped about Braun Strowman mowing down tag teams left and right, the Monster Among Monsters has been on a roll since returning to WWE.

But his contribution Monday night was nothing short of inspired. Austin Theory was dressing down Alpha Academy for failing to take out Johnny Gargano, and Chad Gable ranted about how Otis wasn’t 100% because of “that two-ton doofus” Strowman.

Shortly after, Theory’s ever-present cell phone rang, and the call was for Gable – sadly for him, Braun was watching Raw and had Austin’s number. He challenged Chad to a match next week on Raw in Gable’s hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota, “so they don’t have to fly [his] body home for the funeral.”

It was an awesome little moment, showing Strowman to be engaged and proactive. And then poor Gable spent the rest of the segment looking panicked, like he needed to update his will.

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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.