6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (14 April - Results & Review)

4. Tag Team Snooze

At one time, a match between the War Raiders and New Day would have been a WrestleMania-worthy battle.

But in 2025, a match between the broken-down Raiders and the water-treading New Day feels like an obligation rather than an earned opportunity. Their feud has been mediocre at best, and the reason for running it back from last week’s bout – a disqualification caused by Ivar using a steel chair the New Day brought into the match – is extraordinarily lame.

War Raiders’ video package tried to get the point across about New Day trying to end their careers with a steel chair last week, but no one is buying it at this stage. Worse, New Day’s backstage interview afterward attempted to paint Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods as hard men, beaten down by the locker room turning on them. But they’ve had so many false starts and delays during this heel run that it’s difficult to take it seriously or treat anything with any continuity.

Sadly, this is your bathroom break match on Saturday… unless they break out a Viking ship.

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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.