9 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 25)

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7. Punted To Kickoff Show

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So, not only will Kalisto defend his United States Championship against Ryback again on a PPV kickoff show, but this title match was set up and announced as part of a bumper returning from commercial. So once again, Kalisto looks week as a champion who has matches made for her.

It€™s really a shame that we couldn€™t even get a Kalisto/Heath Slater match on Raw for Kalisto to remind fans why he€™s so much fun to watch wrestle, or Ryback slaughtering someone and demanding a title shot. Instead, it was just announced with no build. And that€™s really a shame, because despite the poor WrestleMania build, there actually was a storyline there.

That thread easily could have been picked up a little, but really, any storyline would have been better.

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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.