6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 21)

4. Is This Leading Somewhere?

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For right now, let’s lodge this as a negative but if there’s follow-through, it could prove positive.

Generally, this writer isn’t fond of the trope of tag teams having one-on-one matches with each other, trading wins. In this case, The Revival’s Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder defeated B-Team’s Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel pretty handily, making it a clean sweep.

However, this probably just gets them another tag title match, which will likely end up how the last one did: with the B-Team stumbling into a win. And that’s why this gets a “down.” It’s far more likely that these singles win will ultimately mean nothing, which has happened before.

But who knows? Stranger things have happened.

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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.