6 Ups & 2 Downs For WWE Raw (20 Oct - Results & Review)

2. AJ Lee Wins Gold

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Sorry, maybe “Phenomenal Dragons” would be a better name for your NEW World Team Champions.

AJ Styles and Dragon Lee dethroned the Judgment Day, who essentially were squatters at the top of the tag division. The match started slow enough, but it ramped up dramatically after a hot tag to Lee, and then a subsequent hot tag to AJ. The final few minutes featured a series of last-second saves, rapid counters and a flurry of action to the finish, which saw Styles drop Finn Balor with a Styles Clash to win his first title in WWE in more than four years (and Dragon’s first main roster title).

JD McDonagh had a tremendous save after a Phenomenal Forearm, while Lee dove over JD to break up a pin after a moonsault-Coup de Grace combo.

It wasn’t face-melting action, but well-worked tag team action is almost always a lock for positive marks, and giving this makeshift duo a shot over letting the Judgment Day continue to hold the tag titles without defending them is a smart play. Who knows? Maybe they’ll start doing Odd Couple segments backstage with the new champs getting to know each other better.

Regardless, Styles and Lee should have some good matches, even if they end up being transitional champs for the two Bronnys to dethrone them.

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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.