4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 9)
Downs…
6. Nonsensical Matches
You know it’s bad when you find yourself wishing Raw had a heel GM to make strange matches rather than a random “WWE official Adam Pearce.”
But when Raw opened with the announcement of a six-man tag match forcing Randy Orton to team with Miz & John Morrison, you had to roll your eyes a bit. These pairings had never happened before, so why were they suddenly happening now? The excuse – Miz & Morrison were angling for a tag title match – didn’t hold up because they could have looked for the same thing in a straight tag match. (And then it all was negated when the Hurt Business were announced to get a title shot next week.)
Throw in the “Survivor Series teammates teaming against each other” foolishness and you have two matches that were held together with the flimsiest of storylines. The tag match wasn’t a bad match itself, but it was pointless. They’re supposed to be fighting SmackDown wrestlers, but because they can’t touch until the PPV, they just fight with each other over and over in different combinations.
This isn’t some great sin, but neither of these matches mattered in the grand scheme of things and felt like excuses to fill time.