4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 16)

2. Banana Peel Victory

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Man, that RETRIBUTION stable must be top-flight! They knocked off Team Raw’s best of the best!

Oh wait, they got token jobber offense throughout the match? Team Raw ran over them toward the end leaving them on the verge of losing? And Mustafa Ali scored a rollup win only after the Raw team had a full-on meltdown?

This match literally helped no one. For RETRIBUTION, it just reinforced that WWE has no plans to do anything useful with them other than be a midcard heel stable that provides nominal opposition. This heel faction was even billed by AJ Styles as a “tune-up” for the dysfunctional Team Raw. And they have nothing to do for Survivor Series.

But they won a match on Monday night! Seriously, what a joke.

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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.