6 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (4 Sept - Results & Review)

Downs…

6. More Miscommunication

Matt riddle
WWE.com

Uggh. Can we please subvert at least one WWE trope?

After last week’s tag team match between New Day and the Viking Raiders saw Drew McIntyre interfere and cost Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods, the Scottish Warrior & Matt Riddle tangled with the Vikings in a Texas Tornado match.

One guess what happened here.

If you said, “New Day interferes and costs Drew and Matt the match,” you’re half-right. Kofi interfered alone, hitting Riddle with a Trouble in Paradise by mistake, and then got used as a battering ram to bash McIntyre, en route to the Vikings winning. And then Drew seethed.

It’s just so predictable that you can see it coming a mile away, making it unimaginative and not very entertaining. Watching a former world champion like Kingston get battered and look foolish as he gets tossed into another former world champ doesn’t sell this rivalry more.

What does make this three-way feud are good matches and compelling stories… not banana peels and miscommunication. This isn’t a bad 80s sitcom – although the writers might think that’s nirvana.

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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.