5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (18 Mar - Results & Review)

2. If Not For The Bloodline Lore…

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Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso should feel like a huge WrestleMania match. The two are arguably the most decorated tag team in WWE history, and they spent years as part of the most successful stable and ongoing angle in the past decade, the Bloodline.

Still, seeing them face off Monday night, nose to nose, it just didn’t feel like a major feud about to bubble over. Perhaps it’s Jimmy being fourth banana in the current iteration of the Bloodline, the guy who gets beat up first (which again happened tonight when Cody Rhodes punked him out with one punch).

Or maybe it’s that the brothers have not only been kept separate for the bulk of the past six months, but have existed in their own separate universes with no heat between. It can’t help that when they finally crossed paths at the Royal Rumble as the first two entrants, Jimmy and Jey didn’t have that spark you’d expect between twins who have been a tag team for their entire careers.

Monday’s opening segment in front of fans that have been consistently hot for a while should have popped a fair amount more. Even their dialogue Monday night was a bit flat when it should have been white hot.

Fans are into Jey and his “Yeet!” routine, and his match with Jimmy should be fine, but this is not going to be an epic feud by any stretch.

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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.