5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Monday Night Raw (24 November - Results & Review)

4. 23 Minutes For ‘Can They Coexist?’

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Cards on the table: Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, and CM Punk in the same ring and wrestling on the same WarGames squad is indeed an all-star team and a cool moment.

Spending 23 minutes to arrive at “we hate each other but we hate The Vision and Paul Heyman more” was… certainly a choice. More than eight minutes passed with just three words (“OKC… Acknowledge me!”) being uttered.

This is probably more of a personal vibe than anything else. If you don’t particularly care for Roman showing up four times a year to walk slowly to the ring, lick his lips, brush his hair back, and tell fans to acknowledge him, then this sort of melodrama isn’t going to be your thing. But if you can’t wait to put your ones up to the sky, you likely were buzzing.

This wasn’t a terrible segment – just long and overall dull. There are a couple of small positives to highlight later.

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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.