6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (29 May - Results & Review)

by Scott Carlson

1. Judgment Day Falls Short, Remain Thorns

Damian Priest AJ Styles
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Few wrestling stables are able to lose multiple big matches and retain their heat, but the Judgment Day has managed to be Teflon at this stage of their existence.

The group lost another tag match Monday night, this one to new World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and AJ Styles, but they continue to be the dominant heel faction on Raw, interrupting babyfaces during the opening segment and then wrestling in the main event. They can do comedy, menacing behavior, straight-up villainous acts, and just great in-ring action. They can get booed out of the building and aren’t afraid to lean into it.

The quartet gave Rollins and Styles an earful in the opener and issued a challenge for the main event. There, they controlled a lot of the match but ultimately fell short against the heroes. Damian Priest looked like a beast once again, and yet he was the one to take the fall, with Rolins needing two stomps to put him away.

Expect to see Judgment Day back in the mix next week as if this loss meant nothing, and fans will just eat it up. It’s uncanny, but it works, as they continue to be perfect foils for multiple acts.

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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.