7 Ups & 6 Downs For WWE Raw (21 July - Results & Review)

3. Booking Stupidity Strikes Again

WWE Raw Creed Brothers Cruz Del Toro
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Not to knock the decision to book the LWO into Monday’s tag title contender’s match, but what was the logic behind that move?

The War Raiders have been seen backstage the past few weeks mixing it up a bit with the New Day, with the duo noting that they never got a two-on-two World Tag Team Championship rematch. When the match to name the next challengers came along, the War Raiders were nowhere to be found.

Instead, Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde – a duo that has not won a single tag match on Raw or SmackDown in more than two years on the roster – were inserted into the match, which they would go on to win. At least the Creed Brothers beat the War Raiders a couple of months ago.

If WWE was going to just give anyone an opportunity to become tag title contenders, why not New Catch Republic? There was no reason to do this other than LWO either being the team to get pinned or to win the opportunity.

Now the match itself…

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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.