5 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (September 10)

3. Faceless Ninjas, WWE-Style

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It’s somewhat understandable that The Shield would amass a bunch of enemies due to their actions as a unit and individually through the years.

But Braun Strowman’s “Dogs of War” group, however, was an embarrassing gang of no-names and odd choices. The obvious one to mention (again) is Kevin Owens, who came back from his self-imposed exile last week after one week to attack Bobby Lashley, and now is one of the 10-11 wrestlers Braun and company has employed to attack the Shield, ninja-style (one-at-a-time).

Aside from the fact that it literally makes no sense for KO to help the man who single-handedly drove him away from WWE, KO then came back one week after quitting and the explanation we got was… Acting GM Baron Corbin asked him to come back and Owens blames Lashley for injuring Sami Zayn.

It’s at least an attempt to explain his actions, but it’s a pretty poor one, and joining Strowman’s merry band of ninjas still wasn’t adequately explained.

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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.