9 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 3)

8. Ricochet Goes Cliché-Free

Ricochet Seth Rollins
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In previous columns, Ricochet has been criticized for spouting a bunch of clichés about superheroes being real, how it sounds nothing like how a real person talks, just a guy reciting a bunch of lame catchphrases to sell T-shirts.

Monday, Ricochet delivered a very real and authentic promo where he talked about wanting to prove himself since he was 14 that he deserved a chance to be world champion. He noted that he’s not a strong as Bobby Lashley, and he doesn’t have hired goons like Seth Rollins, but he touted his determination and dedication as his best weapons.

He then said that Monday’s triple threat for a WWE Championship match “means everything” to him.

No clichés. No banal talking points. It sounded like a real person talking, and it made a big difference. Maybe the writers all got snowed out of Raw and the wrestlers wrote the show themselves.

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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.