7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Crown Jewel 2021

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5. Just A Raw Match… With a Camel

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There was nothing technically wrong with the Raw Tag Team Championship match between RK-Bro and AJ Styles & Omos. But it also wasn’t anything we haven’t really seen before… except for Riddle riding to the ring on a camel.

The strategy of the match (both in-universe and in reality) was to keep Omos’ involvement at a minimum. That’s basically what we got, with AJ in peril for a good part of the bout. We did get a nice little showdown between Omos and Randy Orton, but the tag champs managed to knock Omos off the apron at a crucial moment, leaving AJ alone.

Styles went for a Phenomenal Forearm, only for Orton to nail an RKO for the win. The announcers acted like we’ve never seen anything like it before, except for all the other times Randy has caught a springboarding opponent – including Styles – with an RKO.

Again, there was nothing wrong with this match, but it wasn’t really a PPV-worthy or even fresh matchup.

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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.