4 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Aug 24)

1. Oh Look! Another RETRIBUTION Beatdown!

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Monday night dropped what could have been a PPV-worthy blowoff match on Raw: Rey and Dominik Mysterio teaming together for the first time in a tag match against the two men who have tormented their family for months, Seth Rollins & Murphy.

Instead, the match ended with a DQ as RETRIBUTION invaded the ring and beat the Mysterios down – because Rey and Dominik haven’t suffered enough the past few months without ever getting the upper hand.

And once again, RETRIBUTION got airtime and we learned absolutely nothing about them, other than they wear all black and do nondescript beatdowns.

So thanks for the bait-and-switch on the father/son tag match, as well as continuing the RETRIBUTION non-story.

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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.