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

3. Gable Can Do It All

Maxxine Dupree Valhalla
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Anytime Chad Gable is on your screen, there’s a pretty good chance he’s going to do something to entertain you, whether it’s laugh, smile, gasp in amazement or just cheer him on.

Monday night was no exception, as the Alpha Academy battled the Viking Raiders in a mixed six-person tag match, which doubled as Maxxine Dupri’s in-ring debut. Gable flew around the ring, keeping the energy level high (along with help from Otis, of course), building everything up to when he finally had to make the tag to Maxxine.

Dupri entered and managed to pull off a couple armdrags and a suplex before and attempted Caterpillar was met with a knee from Valhalla. But she managed to catch Valhalla with a corner sunset flip to get the pin, once again besting the more experienced superstar with a simple wrestling move Gable taught her.

This isn’t Shakespeare, but it’s decent enough, and it’s bringing Maxxine along slowly, showing her picking up a move or two at a time rather than being expected to have pieced it all together.

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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.