7 Ups And 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 1)
4. Tag Champs As Plot Devices
As much criticism as has been given to the League of Nations, the group has served a purpose: as cannon fodder for Roman Reigns and his family of Dean Ambrose and the Usos. The quartet has been the perfect punching bags for Reigns, but with three of the four members on the shelf at the moment, it fell to someone else to get whooped. Unfortunately, that someone else were the WWE Tag Team Champions, New Day. On one hand, its great to see the tag champs in a main event slot every now and again, as they consistently are one of the most entertaining parts of Raw. But putting your tag champs out there to simply fill a spot on Roman and Deans dance card in a (largely) meaningless match is just a waste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4OSRLPfYxE WWE could have put all four members of the Social Outcasts out there to fill the same spot, or had Golden Truth make their much-anticipated debut as a team. Sending your tag champs out to lose a match with no purpose is just lazy booking, plain and simple.
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.
