7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (18 April - Review)

3. Intertwining Rivalries

Kevin Owens
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The six-man tag match that main-evented Raw was exactly what you’d expect from five solid wrestlers… and Dominik Mysterio.

But it was what happened afterward that really gelled. Seconds after Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn & Matt Riddle defeated the Judgment Day, the Bloodline hit the ring to attack, followed by the LWO to make the save. All 13 men brawled all around ringside until the faces stood tall to close the show.

Until recently, these two stable feuds were in their own bubbles, but now they’ve spilled over, so you now have a series of mix-and-match bouts you can make going forward: Jey Uso versus Santos Escobar, Riddle versus Damain Priest, Zayn versus Finn Balor, Usos versus LWO, and so on.

This isn’t like the Gang Warz of the Attitude Era – the wrestlers aren’t just interchangeable parts – so that immediately is an upgrade. But there’s something familiar here. It could fizzle out after a few weeks, but that closing brawl opened the door to some possibilities, and that’s always fun.

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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.