4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Results & Review - 23 Oct)

DOWNS…

7. Let It Play Out?

American Alpha New Day
WWE.com

How do you accurately rate the New Day/Alpha Academy tag match?

Both teams had legit reasons to win, with Chad Gable trying to get back to his winning ways, and New Day trying to do the same after their battles with Ivar. The match itself was fine, but not something anyone is going to remember in a few days, so then you have to evaluate the story being told.

And then later on, both tandems were backstage just hanging out and goofing around, which might be fine, except when you remember that Gable was supposedly obsessed with getting back to challenging Gunther for the Intercontinental Championship again. Instead, he was yukking it up with New Day and DIY about Akira Tozawa.

It’s fine to give this more room to breathe, but fans would also not be wrong to just kind of ignore this as filler that accomplished very little other than giving New Day a win.

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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.