6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (29 Aug)

Ups…

6. Profits, Alphas Work Hard

Credit to the Street Profits and Alpha Academy for working hard to get an apathetic crowd into their tag match.

From the sound of things (with the volume turned way up), the Pittsburgh crowd was very quiet throughout the first half of the match, despite the Profits and Alphas delivering some pretty good action. However, the foursome turned up the volume themselves in the waning moments, just absolutely hitting everything out of the park.

Chad Gable stealing Kurt Angle’s ankle lock finisher in his hometown of Pittsburgh was a great touch, but the finishing sequence of double-team moves was just fire, finally getting the fans to act like they were at a wrestling show and not an opera.

Considering the only stakes to this match was Angle’s membership in the Alpha Academy, the Profits and Gable & Otis deserve a lot of credit for their work in this match.