7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 5)

2. And Then There Were None

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What exactly is the endgame here?

The Bar has been bragging about how they’ve beaten every other tag team on the Raw roster. The Revival pointed out that they’ve also beaten nearly everyone else and never gotten a tag title shot. That led to Monday’s match between the two teams, with a title bout at WrestleMania on the line.

And wouldn’t you know it, Cesaro & Sheamus won cleanly, sending Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder to the back of the line. (Hell, even Titus Worldwide managed to beat them in nontitle matches several times.)

So now, the tag champs have defeated nearly (if not) every tag team on the roster, leaving us with no clear contenders. Is this leading somewhere? Will a new tag team debut on Raw (perhaps an NXT callup?) or will an old favorite return (maybe Jeff Hardy returns as Brother Nero for a Broken Universe pairing)?

Or could this be leading to a unification of the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships at Mania? Or, is possible this is leading to another multi-team tag title match, which is the laziest (and thus most likely) route.

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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.