6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 25)

4. Tag Champs Toppled

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Since winning the Raw Tag Team Championship last month, The Revival have lost to two NXT call-up duos three times.

Monday was the third instance, with Aleister Black & Ricochet defeating Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder for the second time in a month. Black and Ricochet are exciting and clearly are being pushed as a top team, but just to remind everyone, The Revival are the current tag champs.

Why does WWE insist on building up new challengers by beating up the champions? It’s mind-boggling. Clearly, WWE feels that Black & Ricochet have something – which is very true – but if you want to build them up, have them knock off Chad Gable & Bobby Roode to earn a WrestleMania title shot rather than send Revival to their third non-title loss in six weeks.

But hey, what does this writer know? Just working off the assumption that champions win… at least some of the time.

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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.