4 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (18 Nov - Results & Review)

3. Judgment Day Slide Continues

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Few stables have fallen off harder in recent months than the Judgment Day. Despite the group holding the tag titles and the Women’s World Championship, the longstanding faction has been a shell of itself since ousting Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley, hanging on for dear life.

The group barely feels like a midcard act at this point, unable to be taken seriously. The fact that Finn Balor and JD McDonagh are still tag champs is a joke: they’ve held the titles for nearly five months and defended them exactly once, more than two months ago.

Their backstage segment was more annoying than anything, with Balor (mis)firing up Carlito and Dominik Mysterio before sending them out to the slaughter with the War Raiders. Then that match was a dull extended squash that gave way to Finn and JD laying Erik and Ivar out in a heatless beatdown segment.

Judgment Day should have disbanded or fallen apart after the feuds with Ripley and Priest ended. No one is taking them seriously, the tag division is frozen in amber, and Rhea seems unable to break free of feuding with them, rather than going off and doing something else before circling back to put Dominik down for good.

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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.