6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 2 - Results & Review)

1. Groups In Disarray

Just because the months-long Bloodline saga of the family slowly imploding has been one of the biggest ongoing angles in modern WWE history doesn’t mean that suddenly the company needs to replicate it everywhere.

And yet, that’s where WWE finds itself.

On Raw Monday night alone, two groups found themselves at odds with each other in back-to-back segments. Judgment Day continued its on-again, off-again bickering, this time with Rhea Ripley laying down the law at Damian Priest’s feet, and even calling out Dominik Mysterio for losing the NXT North American Championship.

In the next segment, Imperium continued its inner turmoil, with Ludwig Kaiser lecturing Giovanni Vinci and giving him the stink-eye throughout their match, as the all-wrestling stable clearly needed a touch of sports entertainment drama.

This says nothing about the possibility that Kevin Owens could flip and turn on Sami Zayn due to his embrace of Jey Uso, or the fact that the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions are always bickering. And that’s just on Raw. (NXT’s Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes are headed for a fall. The OC is having problems on SmackDown. And the LWO could implode over the United States Championship.)

That’s a lot of turmoil, and a lot of the same general angle being recycled repeatedly concurrently because it worked unbelievably well with the Bloodline.