Stevie Richards Wishes Bronson Reed vs. Gunther From Raw Didn’t Have a Clean Finish

Stevie Richards loved Bronson Reed’s match with Gunther from last week’s WWE Raw, though he wishes it hadn’t had a clean finish. Gunther retained the Intercontinental Championship in a hard-hitting match against Reed on last week’s show, and Richards spoke about the bout on his YouTube Channel. The WWE alumnus praised the match and singled out the superplex spot as a highlight, but said he wished the match had left an opening for a rematch.

“Now, I wanna say something about the match as an entire type of synopsis here,” Richards said (per Wrestling Inc). “That the match and the finish, I believe, was wrong because I think these guys had great chemistry — still have great chemistry if they work again. Hopefully, they will. But a clean finish with Gunther going over and Bronson Reed being booked 50/50 for a while, getting pushed as a monster, doing jobs, also known as losing matches for people that don’t know … And then, ultra, ultra-physical and competitive, one of the best matches I’ve seen on Raw in years, and I believe the clean finish might have wasted that.”