5 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 29)

5. Tag Teams Get Short-Changed

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For a brief minute, it looked like WWE was going to take its Raw tag team division seriously, with Bobby Roode & Chad Gable, the Ascension and AOP squaring off in a triple threat tag match.

After about two minutes of action, Gable & Roode picked up a quick win off a German suplex/neckbreaker combo – only to be immediately jumped by AOP, which left both team lying. The match did nothing other than lay waste to two tag teams so AOP could stand tall.

While that in itself isn’t a problem, it was ridiculous to have a triple threat tag match where the entrances are longer than the contest. And wiping out the other two as easily as AOP did after they barely wrestled made them look like chumps.

It’s little things that can help avoid that. Basic, logical storytelling avoids those problems and provides more depth. But hey, they must’ve run out of time showing all those recaps.

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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.