4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (3 July - Review)

3. Selling Out Your Entire Tag ‘Division’

Tag Team Turmoil
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If you want to put over #1 contenders for a tag title, having them win a tag team turmoil match by running the table is one way to do it.

But in having Chelsea Green & Sonya Deville run over four other tag teams Monday night, WWE buried former NXT tag champs, and a former NXT Women’s Champion making her Raw debut. It doesn’t help that this was Green & Deville’s first televised tag win in nearly three months.

The tag turmoil match was bad – bad in-ring action (save for a few eye-popping spots from Katana Chance & Kayden Carter), bad melodrama from Nikki Cross, bad layout – included two first-time teams, and played mainly to the sounds of silence.

This could have been booked a lot better, even if they just gave Carter & Chance a win at the beginning before being cheated out of the next pinfall by Green & Deville. That would have at least protected them a smidge.

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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.