9 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (21 April - Results & Review)

2. Someone Teach McAfee How To Sell

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See if this breaks your brain…

Gunther, a dominant former World Heavyweight Champion who has beaten everyone put in front of him and only lost a handful of times since joining WWE, went on a rampage Monday night and locked announcer Pat McAfee (who has eight matches to his name) in a rear-naked choke for a solid minute.

And McAfee got up after lying on the floor for a bit and walked to the back mostly under his own power. He coughed a lot, walked slowly, and sported a bright red face, but he made his way up the aisle and even slapped fans’ hands.

What are we doing here? This was such an easy call: have the officials carry him to the back and to the trainer’s room. Pat didn’t need to do a stretcher job here, but a guy who lost to Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 38 probably shouldn’t be recovering that quickly from a full minute in the devastating submission finisher of a former world champion.

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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.