3 Ups & 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept. 6)

7. Don’t Bother Paying Attention

Xavier Woods
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While breaking up the tag team turmoil match might have made sense to give the injured teams time to recover, it sent a pretty clear message: The four matches you just saw didn’t matter at all.

Sure, New Day versus Viking Raiders would be a PPV-quality match, but once that bout ended, we got Jinder Mahal & Veer, Lucha House Party, and then Mace & T-Bar facing New Day in subsequent bouts. Oh sure, they lasted for a while and had some decent moments, but they were easily forgotten the minute they were over. None of those three teams have done anything of note in forever, so it wasn’t like anyone thought they’d go anywhere in the turmoil match.

After Mace & T-Bar laid out New Day and Mansoor & Mustafa Ali, tag team turmoil was halted, and restarted later in the night with those two teams, former tag champs AJ Styles & Omos, and WWE Champion Bobby Lashley & MVP. It just looked like two separate matches, with jobbers dominating the first section, and the real contenders filling the second half.

It made that first hour of tag team turmoil feel like a waste of time everyone could just disregard before the real stars participated later.

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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 fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.