9 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 26)

3. JobberFest

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Remember when Bo Dallas had a new and improved attitude, and Darren Young was being made great (again) by Bob Backlund? Remember when the Colons were bullfighters and not tropical resort pitchmen?

All five men (Backlund) included were out for a tag match that seemed about as out-of-place as possible, and it became clear why just seconds into the bout, when Braun Strowman showed up and demolished everyone. And while that was a good development for Strowman, it just felt ridiculous to see all four wrestlers discarded so easily.

Yes, you need jobbers in wrestling to do exactly that: Put over bigger, fresher talent. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t groan when four guys get 90 seconds of TV time, and 75 seconds of it was getting beat up by one man.

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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.