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 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.