5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (22 July - Results & Review)

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5. Balor Stirs The Pot

For the past few months, there have been several semi-subtle moves by Finn Balor to mix things up within the Judgment Day. Monday night, he stirred things up even more.

While Dominik Mysterio and Rhea Ripley continued their reconciliation in the clubhouse, Balor interjected that Dom needed to take care of Jey Uso for trying to get his hooks into Mami. Rhea shot that idea down, but as soon as she left, Finn told Mysterio that “you know what you need to do.”

That triggered a manhunt for Jey, which gave Finn the opportunity to send Dom down a corridor… which immediately led to Liv Morgan for another awkward encounter.

These little instances are right there in the open, but there’s just enough plausible deniability if Balor ever was called out on it. However, it’s pretty clear that Finn is working an angle here to disrupt order in the Judgment Day, and he’s been at it for a while now.

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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.