5 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb. 22)

7. Tag Match Stuck In 2nd Gear

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When you have a tornado tag team match involving Lucha House Party, Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin, you would naturally expect a wild and crazy affair, with wrestlers flying all around the ring. After all, three of the four were featured on 205 Live and can dazzle with the best of them.

What we got on Monday night was a dull and plodding affair, despite having all four men in the ring at the same time. It was mostly the Hurt Business controlling with power moves, but not even impressive physicality. It was competent, but nowhere near what it could have or even should have been.

The luchadores got in some high-octane offense for a minute, but they were quickly put down with an impressive finishing sequence, but that really was it.

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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.