8 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 40 (8 April - Results & Review)

1. The Jobment Day

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How are fans supposed to receive the Judgment Day? Are they a serious faction to be feared as a force on Monday nights, or are they the heel clown princes of Raw?

Just to make this really clear, the Judgment Day consists of two World Champions, and their other three members got jobbed out Monday night to a comedy tag team and a legend who can’t take a bump due to his roles in Hollywood.

After celebrating Rhea Ripley retaining the Women’s World Championship and Damian Priest winning the World Heavyweight Championship, the group got upstaged by R-Truth in a moment that was momentarily legitimately funny, but quickly descended into the usual antics that have persisted for months: Truth thinks he’s in Judgment Day, despite repeatedly getting beat up by the group.

This then led to a six-man tag match where Finn Balor, Dominik Mysterio, and JD McDonagh had a three-on-two advantage and still couldn’t put Miz and Truth away, enabling John Cena to run down as the surprise teammate whom Truth said no one could see. You can guess the finishing sequence from here, times three.

Jobbers. And idiots too, because Balor challenged for the Tag Titles they lost two days earlier, and instead accepted a six-man tag against a team without a third person present. Why not insist on a straight tag for the titles? Why let a goof like R-Truth dictate the terms?

WWE clearly knew this was comedy, because Priest and Ripley disappeared during a commercial break so the brand’s two World Champions were nowhere to be seen near this stuff.

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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.