4 Ups & 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Aug 30)

Ups…

4. The Raid Resumes

Veer Ivar
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Hey, the Viking Raiders still exist!

Someone must’ve spotted Erik & Ivar hanging out in catering and realized they still worked here, so they threw them onto TV, beating the juggernaut team of Jinder Mahal and Veer. It was the Raiders’ first Raw match in a month, when they lost a Raw Tag Team Championship match.

It’s not to say that taking a couple of weeks off was a bad thing, but when your tag division consists of six teams, it’s tough to envision one of them disappearing for a month. At least they came out and convincingly defeated Jinder & Veer with their usual flurry of offense, with Ivar hitting a nice cannonball off the apron to take out Shanky & Veer, leaving Mahal to eat a Viking Experience.

Good enough, but that’s also with the curve we grade Raw on these days.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.