4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (5 January - Results & Review)

5. Say Less

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Last week, the Usos closed out 2025 by winning the World Tag Team Championships, defeating AJ Styles and Dragon Lee.

Monday night, the brothers stood in the crowd and said about as little as humanly possible. They thanked the former champs for a good fight before turning their attention to 2026, and that any tag team out there can step up and battle for the tag titles.

And that was it. Oh, and four letters, one word.

No one was expecting an earth-shaking promo, but considering where Jey Uso was less than a year ago – winning the Royal Rumble and capturing the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 41 – this was about as underwhelming of a post-title victory promo as you could imagine.

Maybe it’s because the Raw tag division is nearly nonexistent, but the Usos’ promo didn’t exactly inspire fans to imagine future matchups. The women’s tag division on Raw alone is deeper and generates more fantasy booking than the men’s division.

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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.