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3. The Riott Squad - A Limitless Damage Budget

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The Riott Squad's Monday Night Raw pre-match ritual of sort-of messing up the backstage area is laughable.

Akin to that moment in the American version of The Office in which Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute and Andy Bernard take up parkour years after the passing fad has peaked, Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan cause extremely minor disturbances that at best require a small clean up that's probably done and (literally) dusted by the time the trio are finished in the ring.

They're heels as a result obviously, but only irritating rather than intimating. D*ckheads in place of actual danger. This despite the fact Braun Strowman (more on him later) is given a stunt a week that most likely involves its own health and safety file.

The company's never had so much money, so some of that could be spent on creating an actual sense of destruction from the crew. They've gone to the trouble of knocking up a cheap set for the purpose of some counselling between Bayley and Sasha Banks - the rest of the women's division could be afforded the same courtesy.

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