6 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Raw (June 15)

5. Vikings Versus Ninjas. In 2020.

Viking Raiders Ninjas
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Set aside the idea of suddenly making Akira Tozawa the leader of a bunch of ninjas. Well, don’t set it aside, ridicule it and move on.

But rather than return to focus on the tag division Monday night, we got a truly bizarre situation with the Viking Raiders and Street Profits teaming up against Tozawa and three nameless ninjas, all of whom got the crap beaten out of them. Akira then summoned the seven-foot ninja into the ring, which then triggered the Viking Profits to call in the Big Show, who attacked the three faceless ninjas again, while Tozawa and the giant ninja escaped.

Of all the things that happened on Raw Monday night, this was one of them.

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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.