6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Jan 6)

3. Raiders Get Revenge

Viking Raiders
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For weeks, The OC has been touting that they were the only team to defeat the Raw Tag Team Champions, The Viking Raiders.

Monday night, the Raiders extracted a measure of revenge when they pinned Karl Anderson in a triple threat tag title match. The contest itself was pretty good, with the Street Profits getting a chance to shine a little too. Montez Ford and Ivar squared off in a gymnastics demonstration, Angelo Dawkins T-bone suplexed Ivar, the Raiders beat people up, and the OC got their shots in as well.

While it’s still true that Gallows & Anderson are the only team to beat the Viking Raiders, the champs cleanly held onto their titles in the match of the year for WWE (so far).

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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.