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

2. Why 2/3 Falls?

Two-out-of-three falls matches can be epic struggles that tell a more nuanced story, maybe painting a picture of someone needing to dig out of a hole, or establishing a plot in an earlier fall that informs the deciding fall.

But Monday’s tag team match did not offer that, leaving the question: What was the point of having a two-out-of-three falls match between #DIY and Imperium if the two teams were just going to trade rollups off of broken-up finishers before the decisive fall?

The first two falls saw both teams’ tandem finishers interrupted and rollups deciding them, which felt pointless in the long run, especially since they burned through those quickly and then the third fall ended up becoming pretty hot by the end. They could have hacked the first two falls off and built up the third fall, as then entire match and it might have worked a lot better.

This was almost reminiscent of the days in 2019 when Vince McMahon made a bunch of 2/3 falls matches so Raw could run longer matches that didn’t have any action during the commercial breaks.