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

2. RK-Bro Retains

AJ Styles wasn’t really foreshadowing on commentary so much as he was stating the obvious when he talked about MVP being the weak link on his tag team, and then Porter ate the pinfall.

RK-Bro retained their Raw Tag Team Championship despite Omos and Styles lurking at ringside while they had to deal with MVP and Bobby Lashley. The match itself was pretty good (setting aside the haphazard nature of the setup for this match), with Riddle getting to stand in there with the WWE Champion and looking decent while doing it, even nailing a Floating Bro on him. That alone was enough of a hint at the Original Bro being elevated at some point.

There was no mystery in whether RK-Bro would retain, but it was in doubt whether they’d win outright or survive by DQ. Instead, they won clean with Riddle taking out MVP with a Floating Bro. And then Randy Orton laid Lashley out with an RKO (after Bobby speared Riddle).

While this writer isn’t a huge fan of taking your world champ and inserting him into the tag division (because it’s more a sign of a weak tag division and a lack of world title contenders), this worked. It would’ve been better with better writing, but this is WWE we’re talking about here.