5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (7 April - Results & Review)

4. And The Crowd Goes Mild!

That sound you heard during the World Tag Team Championship match was a pin dropping (or a rat pissing on cotton).

New Day versus War Raiders was a pedestrian, heatless match that played out to mostly silence on Monday night, so naturally it ended in a disqualification, with the champs stupidly getting DQ’d to likely set up a rematch at WrestleMania 41. Because if the build and initial match were dull and heatless, surely the rematch at the biggest show of the year will be electric, right?

The worst part about this is that it has been four months since New Day shockingly turned heel by kicking Big E out of the group, and they feel colder than they have at any point since. Sure, 'Mania is the big platform, but WWE should have called an audible and gotten the titles on them two months ago and let them run roughshod over the division, retaining via shenanigans and setting up a legit feud for WrestleMania rather than a potential title match that will die on the night.

New Day has shown flashes of greatness during these past few months, so there always is hope, but Monday’s offering was not inspiring.

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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.