5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (1 May - Review)

3. Fighting Fire With Fire

Sami Zayn Kevin Owens Matt Riddle
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The Bloodline has made a cottage industry of interfering in matches to help its members win matches and keep titles in the stable.

Knowing that, it was refreshing to see babyfaces who have been on the receiving end of the Usos’ shenanigans turn it around and give it right back to them. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn feigned a chairshot to get Jey Uso ejected from ringside, and then when Jimmy Uso tried to cheat by removing a turnbuckle pad, KO smashed his head into the exposed buckle, allowing Matt Riddle to pick up the win.

There are ways to have babyfaces who don’t always play entirely by the rules and not betray their good guy virtues, and this was it. Of course, they can’t do this every week and get away with it, but this was refreshing to see the tag champs beating the Usos at their own game to get a measure of revenge.

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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.