5 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 7)

6. A Tag Team Match, Playa!

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Who let Teddy Long loose on Raw?

Sonya Deville and Adam Pearce were discussing God knows what backstage when Charlotte Flair and Rhea Ripley both asked for rematches with Nikki Cross (after the Queen asked for her loss to be stricken from the record).

Rather than grant a rematch (or two), they simply booked Rhea and Charlotte to team up against Nikki and a partner of her choosing. Nevermind that that makes no sense at all, how does forcing two opponents to team up against a glorified jobber make us want to see that title match?

The only mysteries were who Cross would pick (and in this diminished division, those are slim pickings), and whether Flair and Ripley can coexist as a tag team… because that’s something we’re all waiting to find out with bated breath.

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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.