7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (10 Feb - Results & Review)

1. Creeds Get DQ’d

Heel tag teams getting disqualified for cheating is not a new concept by any stretch. It typically happens when the villains are outmatched and are seconds away from taking a loss.

That might have been what WWE envisioned when booking the Creed Brothers to introduce the tag titles as weapons in their World Tag Team Championship match against the War Raiders on Raw, but it did not work. The two teams battled in a match that started slow but got better as it wore on, with all four men getting more physical.

The Creeds hit a superplex/moonsault combo for a close two count, but then the War Raiders went for War Machine on Brutus Creed. Cue Julius Creed, who ran down the apron and blasted Ivar with a title belt as he went to spring off the rope. However, it was in plain sight of the referee, which triggered a disqualification.

What a dumb finish. If Julius could get there for the belt shot, he could have just as easily pulled Ivar over the ropes to the floor, as other opponents have done, and then the Creeds could have double-teamed Erik to try to put him away. It didn’t make sense to suddenly throw away a title match – especially after your stable leader said he expected you to win tag gold – when victory was still in sight.

WWE likely will manufacture a rematch, but if you were going to go this route, do something like a five-minute brawl that tumbles outside and ends in a double count-out, not 12 minutes and a belt shot.