5 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 1)

6. Delaying The Inevitable

Shelton Benjamin MVP Cedric Alexander
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This is not to say that the Lucha House Party should have walked out of Raw the new tag champs, but why are we still continuing on this “can they get along or not?” angle with the Hurt Business?

Simply put, Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin either need to have a staged intervention or just break up at this point. It’s not interesting as they string along this dissension between the two, with Shelton and Cedric occasionally working well together, and other times looking like they want to murder each other.

On Monday, they spent the entire tag title match getting along fine, until the waning seconds when Benjamin tagged himself in and got the pin after Paydirt, leaving Alexander ticked that he could have picked up the win himself.

So the champs retain, and we are treated to a continuation of this “tag champs in disarray” storyline. Yippie.

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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.