6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (4 May - Results & Review)
5. Tying Things Together
When WWE was firing on all cylinders in late 2022 through 2024, one of the big tells was how common threads between wrestlers were a feature, not a bug. If storylines overlapped, they didn’t hesitate to weave them all together in a really smart, creative way. It showed that there was real thought to the booking.
An incident on Monday night evoked those feelings for a very brief, fleeting moment, but it was more of an echo than a belief that they were starting to click like that again. After the Joe Hendry/Austin Theory match ended in a disqualification due to Logan Paul attacking, The Street Profits ran down once again to make the save and get a piece of the World Tag Team Champions (just when are they going to defend those titles, by the way?!).
The odds wouldn’t stay in the babyfaces’ favor for long, as fellow Vision member Bron Breakker jumped in the ring to take out Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins. Before he could finish Dawkins off, Seth Rollins appeared from out of the crowd to attack Breakker, paying him back for the attack to open the show.
The heels would stand tall at the end of this, and Rollins and the Profits would argue backstage about getting in each other’s way, but it’s pretty clear that the faces are going to have to realize they have a common enemy in the Vision and need to work together to stop them.
Simple stuff here, but it all flowed nicely, had the crowd fired up and intertwined three angles in the span of 90 seconds.