7 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 20)


Downs...

8. Nothing Better To Do

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Consider this a very mild negative, if only because of where they most recently were.

New Day was announced as the hosts of WrestleMania XXXIII. New Day, who spent 15 months as tag champs and have been an integral part of Raw (with some hiccups) during that time, will not be competing at WWE’s biggest show of the year.

Look, on one hand, shouldn’t a highly decorated tag team want to be in the ring maybe fighting for the titles they lost in December? Or maybe they want to win the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal together? But on the other hand, hosting Mania presumably means prime promo time instead of a meaningless tag match.

But still, it feels like a consolation prize, rather than a reward.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.