7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 13)

6. Kurt Strikes Back

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Sometimes, predictable is good.

The moment that Baron Corbin announced Finn Balor’s opponents in a handicapped match as Kevin Owens and Jinder Mahal, you had to know what was coming next: GM Kurt Angle came out and added Braun Strowman to the match to make it a tag team bout.

Balor and Strowman have formed an alliance of sorts ever since Finn hung with Braun in a singles match a while back, apparently earning the Monster Among Men’s respect. So it was no surprise that Angle, asserting himself against the constable, chose Braun to tag with Balor.

Sure, it was pretty obvious given Finn’s opponents, but that doesn’t make it a bad thing.

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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.