6 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (April 24 - Review)

5. Advancing By Losing(?)

The LWO
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In an ideal world, factions that need to get off the ground would make headway by actually winning matches and building up some capital in the ring.

But for the LWO, just getting a televised match against the Bloodline and hanging with them for a while was a pretty big step forward. Since forming just before WrestleMania, their members have lost far more matches than they’ve won, and the original Legado Del Fantasma haven’t competed together at all, despite being a fine-tuned machine in the ring.

The LWO’s match on Raw allowed Santos Escobar, Cruz del Toro and Joaquin Wilde to compete as a trio for the first time in more than six weeks, and they made sure to hit stereo dives and some other high-flying action, keeping the Usos and Solo Sikoa off-balance until the brothers distracted the referee long enough for Solo to hit a Samoan Spike on Cruz for the win.

No one was buying the LWO beating the Bloodline here as the faction wars ramp up, but giving them the opening match and allowing the trio to hang for a bit was a decent boost for them. Next step: win a few matches and continue to wow fans. If they don’t, this little “up” will evaporate quickly.

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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.