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

2. Faceless Ninjas, Part 2

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Among the group of semi-anonymous wrestlers who have provided backup to Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre was a duo who is supposedly getting a serious push of their own.

AOP, formerly the Authors of Pain, was among the crowd that The Shield beat down and scattered with axe handles to open Raw, meaning this dominant tag team and eight other men were subdued by three men (albeit ones with weapons).

A few segments later, AOP demolished enhancement talent and was being talked up as unstoppable monsters who will dominate WWE. This was a half-hour after they were among the wrestlers handily defeated in seconds by The Shield like they were nothing.

Does anyone actually pay attention to this crap? Like, even the slightest bit of attention. They could have had others from 205 Live (Drew Gulak was there already) if they needed more bodies.

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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.