7 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Sep 27)

2. Another Solid Wrestling Match

Riddle AJ Styles
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What happens when you put AJ Styles and Riddle in a singles match, give them 10+ minutes and get out of the way?

You get a solid TV bout that melts your ice-cold heart just a little bit. Riddle and Styles put together a fun match that featured the Original Bro going it alone with Randy Orton away, leaving him at a disadvantage with Omos at ringside. Despite the two having matched up numerous times in the past, they still managed to throw a few new wrinkles into the mix, with Styles hitting a pump-handle gutbuster, and then countering an RKO into a Burning Hammer.

All of it led to AJ getting the win with a Styles Clash, and then Omos laying out Riddle with a chokeslam. This most likely is leading to a tag title rematch since MVP is out injured, so he and Bobby Lashley won’t be competing for the titles anytime soon. And that’s just fine as of right now.

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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.