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

2. Deflating The Tag Division

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Holy hell, what a clusterf***.

As mentioned earlier, knocking the Viking Raiders out along with Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson via double-DQ deflated the entire tag team turmoil match, leaving us four bouts that were lacking in any drama or even interest.

Think about it: Two of the better tag teams were disqualified in the second of seven bouts (which became six), and then a duo teaming together for the first time proceeded to run the table over four established teams.

Worse, the thrown-together team consisted of the under-utilized and underwhelming Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler, who has spent weeks getting beat up by legends and other wrestlers and acting like a bizarre spoiled child.

But hey, they’re your new #1 contenders for the Raw Tag Team Championships! Smell the excitement for this title match.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.