6 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 26)

3. Viking Raiders Sunk

When they announced the teams for the tag team turmoil match, you had to believe that this would finally be the coming-out party for the Viking Raiders, who have spent months beating up jobbers and largely steering clear of established tag teams.

And then they were the first team out of the gate. Maybe they’d run through three or four teams before being overcome, possibly counted out to protect them. This had the potential to be good. They knocked off the B-Team in short order, and then Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson came out, which was a big perplexing.

The two teams brawled and brawled and brawled, until the referee disqualified both duos.

Yes, they booked a double-DQ two matches into a seven-match gauntlet match. Because reasons.

There were a bunch of different ways to protect the two teams without this embarrassment. Maybe even just having the Viking Raiders thrash Ryder & Hawkins and Lucha House Party before booking the DQ would have helped.

As it turned out, this one move killed off the rest of the bout.