WWE opened Monday Night Raw this week with a chaotic and vicious parking lot attack. Royce Keys, who recently turned heel, and his new backup band OTM jumped Jimmy and Jey Uso and delivered a beatdown that left both brothers bloody and their car smashed up. The ambush was clearly meant to signal to the audience that the trio should be taken very seriously. Unfortunately, the segment didn’t exactly have the desired effect thanks to some heavy-handed censorship that was equal parts goofy and uncomfortable.
If you watch WWE programming on a regular basis, you may have noticed that either WWE, Netflix or some combination of the two have started going back and editing certain segments after Monday Night Raw airs. Sometimes if a joke is a tiny bit raunchy, they’ll just quietly delete it later and pretend like it never happened. Sometimes if a performer gets cut during a match and starts to bleed, they’ll add some blurring. It’s been annoying but this week went from annoying to infuriating.
