7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 18)

by Scott Carlson

1. Are They Or Aren€™t They?

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The moment that AJ Styles, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows all signed with WWE, fans wondered whether the three members of the Bullet Club would acknowledge their history and reunite. Instead of giving us a direct answer Monday, WWE gave fans plenty to speculate about and turned it into part of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship storyline.

Backstage, AJ ran into Anderson and Gallows, and the three hugged and joked around, talking about how great it was to be together in WWE. Later, after Styles confronted Roman Reigns, Gallows and Anderson blindsided the champ and laid him out, with AJ looking disappointed.

Then, just to add to things a little bit, Styles approached Reigns backstage and told him he didn€™t know that was going to happen and that he was sorry. Roman wasn€™t buying it and believed that it€™s part of AJ€™s plan.

So now, fans are left with the possibility that we€™ve seen the Bullet Club re-form in WWE and is going to try to run roughshod over the company, or AJ could be pitted against his buddies. The worst-case scenario here is that WWE thinks that they can make AJ into the heel with his backup and thus believe that fans will cheer Roman by default. If that€™s the case, then the creative team is really lost.

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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.