7 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (5 Aug - Results & Review)

by Scott Carlson

1. Priest, Ripley Stand Tall

WWE Raw Damian Priest Rhea Ripley JD McDonagh
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The reborn Judgment Day seems to exist for one simple goal: to give Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest human pinballs to bounce off of them.

Priest attacked JD McDonagh mercilessly, repeatedly pounding him with strikes and kicking him down several times. But JD came back with some help from Carlito to stay in the match, which really just prolonged the beatdown from Damian.

Ultimately, Finn Balor and the rest of the Judgment Day ran in for the DQ, triggering a four-on-one mugging. However, Rhea Ripley ran down for the save, getting her hands on Liv Morgan before Dominik Mysterio saved her and they fled. This left McDonagh to eat a Ripley headbutt and South of Heaven chokeslam.

Priest and Ripley really had become the standout stars of the group, the de facto leaders in a leaderless faction, and both got drummed out of the stable at SummerSlam. They looked quite impressive teaming up to repel a Judgment Day attack, and it would be great to see them continue to stand together against their former stablemates, two solo warriors joining forces for a common goal.

It also can’t be accidental that the remainder of the Judgment Day are all a head shorter than Priest and Ripley, making them look like giants being swarmed by pests.

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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.