7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 22)

5. Tag Champs Continue The Raid

Viking Raders Curt Hawkins
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We’ve already seen it, but it didn’t hurt to see the Viking Raiders demolish Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins Monday night.

The former Raw Tag Team Champions never stood a chance, and they looked completely out of their league, but that’s the kind of thing that the Raiders have to do: Continually beat down the lower dregs of the tag division and occasionally knock off a serious contender.

It’s scary to think that just six-plus months ago, Ryder & Hawkins won the tag titles at WrestleMania, and Monday, they were getting mauled and begging off from the Viking Raiders.

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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.