5 Ups And 11 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 27)

7. Out For A Raid

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Remember last month when the Viking Raiders (nee Experience) debuted on Raw and looked like a dominant team that was going to take the tag division by storm?

Three weeks ago, they destroyed the Raw Tag Team Champions, Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins. Since then, they haven’t been seen near a Raw ring. Ryder & Hawkins were seen backstage last week in a non-speaking role with Mick Foley, and that was it.

The Raiders should have set themselves up for a tag title match almost immediately after winning in less than three minutes. But instead they vanish from our television without a word. Are the three hours of Raw filling up that easily?

This is mind-bogglingly stupid.

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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.