6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (Aug 1)

2. RETRIBUTION > The Judgment Day

The Judgment Day
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If you’re going to kill off this miserable faction known as The Judgment Day, then get it over with quickly, send Finn Balor back to NXT for a few months and ship Damian Priest over to SmackDown to reboot them.

Otherwise, having the group get beat at SummerSlam and then have Edge take them out single-handedly on Raw two nights later doesn’t make them look like anything resembling a threat. They could barely escape Monday night, and the only redeeming thing they did was came when Rhea Ripley shoved Dominik Mysterio into Edge’s path for a spear, potentially triggering tension between the Mysterios and the Rated-R Superstar.

But beyond that, Judgment Day did not have a good weekend.

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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.