6 Ups And Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 23)
3. A Win That Helps No One
Last week, WWE reunited a tag team they never should have broken up, the Primetime Players. Monday, the duo got a shot at the team that assaulted them the previous week, the Ascension. What unfolded was wrong step after wrong step. Lets run through it. The newly reunited Darren Young and Titus ONeil didnt get an entrance and were in the ring like jobbers. Young never tagged out, taking a beating for the majority of the match. He won on a fluke, rolling Viktor up with a small package, handing the Ascension their first WWE defeat. The Ascension then decimated the Primetime Players. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svk_yDtso4A&index=14 Who does this help elevate? Who should fans care about? The team that lost on a fluke in a heatless match? The reformed team that barely strung together two offensive moves and didnt even execute a simple tag? Kudos for trying to add another tag team to the ranks, but this was a horrible lack of planning on WWEs part, and no one looked good as a result.
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.
