In addition to the retirement of Daniel Bryan, last night's Raw was notable for another, albeit lesser, reason - every single match had a finish. To be more specific (since all matches end one way or another), every single match ended by pinfall, submission, or, in the case of the main event, table breakage. There were no disqualifications or countouts, a rarity for a WWE show (and especially a three-hour Raw). To put things in perspective, there wasn't a single match where a heel blew off his opponent and walked to the back, or a third man ran in the ring and rendered two combatants' hard work meaningless, or an aggressor was disqualified for beating up his foe excessively. WWE relies heavily on those cheap endings, and it was nice that they were all absent. Granted, there were still a couple of cheesy roll-up pins, and Titus O'Neil's loss was rendered meaningless when he immediately got revenge, but everyone knows the company has a long way to go in its booking. Still, it's an interesting curiosity that the matches themselves were set up to be relatively straightforward. Let's hope the trend continues.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
