6 Ups & 6 Downs from WWE Raw (2 June - Results & Review)

3. Yet Another DQ

WWE Raw Seth Rollins Jey Uso Bron Breakker
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Stop if you’ve heard this one before: a match involving the top heel stable on Raw ended in a disqualification on Monday night.

Sure enough, this was not the first time that the Seth Rollins-led stable wreaked havoc on the outside of the ring, only to reap the benefits. Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed were having a serviceable tag match against Sami Zayn and Jey Uso, only for Rollins to sneak down and stomp Jey in the aisle and trigger a three-on-two attack that drew CM Punk down to make the save.

The match mercifully didn’t go a good 20 minutes before ending in a DQ, but this is yet another disqualification ending on WWE programming in a series of non-finishes since WrestleMania 41. DQ finishes have their place, but the company has fully fallen back into the lazy practice of relying on outside interference and disqualifications for their matches.

In this case, it undercut any image of Reed and Breakker as a dominant tag team, having their leader run down for the interference finish. If not for the fact that triple threats are no disqualification, there would have been a couple more DQs the past couple of weeks.

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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.