6 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (4 Sept - Results & Review)
Downs…
6. More Miscommunication
![Matt riddle](https://cdn4.whatculture.com/images/2023/09/95df6ff06c77cb37-600x338.jpg)
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.