3 Ups & 7 Downs For WWE Raw (18 Aug - Results & Review)

3. So Much Bad To Unpack

Just to clear the air, no, Mr. Iguana is not the source of this “down,” but his tag match alongside Dragon Lee against the Judgment Day served up some material ripe for criticism Monday night.

The match itself was okay for the most part, though the segments involving Mr. Iguana’s puppet La Yesca didn’t exactly bring the house down like WWE probably expected. Still, the match went along fine, even if the crowd went mild for much of it. But after Dominik Mysterio interfered to cost Dragon Lee another match (more on that in a bit), was it the LWO running down to make the save? No, El Hijo del Vikingo appeared at ringside to try to even the odds before succumbing to the Judgment Day numbers.

So, where were Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde? They just challenged for the tag titles a few weeks ago, and suddenly, they’re nowhere to be found to back up their stablemate. Group leader Rey Mysterio might be on the injured list, but he can show up in AAA every couple of months, including this past weekend. However, he wasn’t at Raw two days later.

What’s the point of having an LWO stable if WWE just selectively chooses to ignore the existence of half (or nearly all) of its members when it’s convenient for the storyline? Just disband the group and have them be friendly despite going their separate ways.

Then there’s Dragon Lee, who still hasn’t won a televised singles match in nine months and has only won three tag matches in that span – none since April. What an absolute waste of a legit talent. But go on about Triple H being a great booker.

Maybe you could overlook a lot of this if the wrestling was tremendous and played to a hot crowd, but it wasn’t, and it didn’t, so the logic-deprived extracurriculars get magnified.