5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Raw (May 4)
2. And Back To Square One
Just when it seemed like WWE was going to give Ricochet & Cedric Alexander a push as a tag team, the writers threw a bump in the road for them yet again.
The duo has been getting shined up in video packages as a hot, athletic tag team, which is a welcome departure from both of them losing a bunch of singles matches. But after racking off wins in three of their last four matches, they lost a return bout against NXT jobbers Shane Thorne & Brendan Vink.
Yes, you read that correctly. WWE has spent the past couple weeks talking up Alexander & Ricochet as an up-and-coming tag team (with only five matches as a duo under their belts), only to have a no-name duo they already defeated beat them in short order Monday night.
It might have something to do with Vink being a big lumbering guy (Vince McMahon loves his big guys, and Ricochet and Alexander are small), but his “running” big boot (more like a stumble forward) looked embarrassing as a finisher compared to Drew McIntyre’s Claymore.
Any way you slice it, this was bad. MVP might have endorsed them, but it’s not like he was ringside to cause a distraction or anything. He gave a lame pep talk and the winless Aussies upset the newly packaged tag team. Way to go WWE.