6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Nov 19)

3. A Rollup That Works

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Rollup pins of champions is sometimes the laziest thing WWE can do to build a new challenger, but in the case of Bobby Roode & Chad Gable, it might have been the only thing they could have done.

Ordinarily, you would want to build up a contender for the Raw Tag Team Championships by having them defeat other tag teams, but really, how much would wins over the Ascension, B-Team and Heath Slater & Rhyno mean?

You couldn’t have them defeat the previous tag champs, as Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose are now feuding, and no way the tag champs before them, Drew McIntyre & Dolph Zigger, would lose at this stage. So going over the current champs actually made sense.

And Gable’s top rope sunset flip pin on Akam was pretty effective, rather than a simple distraction rollup. Gable & Roode are both accomplished wrestlers, and while they most likely are just cannon fodder for AOP, they should have a pretty good match or two.

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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.