5 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 1st)
3. Tag Team (Division In) Turmoil
Remember the cautiously optimistic tag that was applied to the Kofi Kingston/Big E/Xavier Woods trio for several weeks? Its officially gone. With a chance to actually have three midcarders turn into something a little more serious and rejuvenated, the end result is the three dancing and singing for the crowds amusement exactly the opposite of what Woods talked about months ago. Worse yet, they jobbed in their second match as a team to a makeshift tag team. Sure, this was a setup for a feud with the talented Dust Brothers, but still. And the entire tag team turmoil match was just a mess. Five teams in a 20-minute match with Adam Rose and the Bunny as one of the team entrants? Where was Slater Gator? Los Matadors? And the previous tag champs were eliminated in less than two minutes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoDet_wVTCI Lastly, the Usos are a really good tag team, and a match against Miz and Damien Mizdow could and should be good. But this could have been a chance to elevate another team, even if for only a month. And to top it off, things happened a little in reverse
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.
