6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Monday Night Raw (3 November - Results & Review)

Tag matches abound, main event falls flat, Dirty Dom meets his match.

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WWE in 2025 is a riddle wrapped in an enigma, a juxtaposition of highly entertaining matches and segments immediately followed by some of the blandest, most coma-inducing content imaginable.

Monday Night Raw purportedly was supposed to reveal a new landscape for the company – at least, according to COO Paul Levesque – but in reality, it was just another episode of the red brand, featuring its now-standard mixed bag of fun moments and groan-inducing ones. It was Malibu Stacy with a new hat, brought to life.

Perhaps the worst (let’s get that out of the way) of the evening was booking a tag match between The Vision and Jey Uso and CM Punk to go to a double count-out after 10 minutes of bland action, followed by a post-match beatdown. That evoked memories of the summer-long lather, rinse and repeat of meaningless Raw main events. But what made this tag worse is that there were three other tag matches that preceded it, and all of them were demonstrably better, magnifying how inadequate the main event truly was.

Those earlier matches, however, deserve a fair amount of praise. The two women’s tag matches varied in quality and objectives, but both accomplished their goals in advancing stories via solid in-ring action. And the World Tag Team Championship rematch produced another electric bout between the Judgment Day and AJ Styles and Dragon Lee.

Dominik Mysterio finally met the one babyface who can make fans boo the Intercontinental Champion – his deadbeat dad, Rey Mysterio.

And then there was Logan Paul. Enough said.

Let’s get to it…

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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.