7 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Raw (April 13)

5. A Sloppy Tag Team Bout

On the one hand, we saw Ricochet and Cedric Alexander’s one-week momentum get snuffed out Monday night at the hands of the Viking Raiders, making you wonder if this is just a sign of what’s to come for the new duo.

However, professional wrestling supposedly involves competition between opponents to determine who’s better so someone moves up the ladder. So if the Raiders, a team that’s been together for years and already held the Raw and NXT tag titles, faces a duo that’s had two televised matches, shouldn’t they logically win and move up to potentially challenge for the titles they formerly held?

But the tiebreaker here has to go to the quality of their match, which while featuring a lot of energy was also very sloppy. It looked like the four men were on different pages, missing moves left and right, including the Raiders botching their own finisher. When you give a tag team match 15 minutes, you expect it to be somewhat cohesive rather than a mad scramble of stuff, but that’s more or less what we got.

This wasn’t terrible by any stretch, but it can’t in good conscience get positive marks.