4 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Raw (Aug 17)

4. Jobber Town

Mustafa Ali
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Remember when Ricochet and Mustafa Ali meant something? Neither does WWE, apparently.

The two joined Apollo Crews for a six-man elimination tag match against The Hurt Business on Monday night. And it looked like one of those women’s Survivor Series matches from the mid-2000s when the women all got eliminated bang-bang-bang.

Just a minute or so into the match, Bobby Lashley eliminated Ali with a Dominator, which maybe was the second offensive move on Mustafa. Then Ricochet entered the match, and after a brief flurry, got nailed with a spinebuster from Lashley and Paydirt from Shelton Benjamin for another elimination.

Don’t worry though: Crews returned the favour, quickly tossing Shelton from the match and managing to pin his PPV opponent clean before being bounced himself by Lashley.

So… who did this benefit? Lashley looked strong, but the United States Champion and his challenger – the only ones in the match with a scheduled bout at SummerSlam – didn’t.

This company…

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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.