8 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (13 Jan - Results & Review)

4. Priest Takes No Prisoners

Damian Priest and Finn Balor made for a fun tag team as partners in the Judgment Day. They did not – unfortunately – make great dance partners in a feud after the group splintered.

Their blowoff match Monday night was a street fight that relied on plunder to hide its deficiencies, but there was one aspect that’s worth praising: Priest himself.

Priest deserves credit for his strong persona throughout this match. After putting Balor through a couple of conveniently placed tables by hitting a Broken Arrow from the seats to the floor, Damian made his way back to the ring, selling the effects of the move on himself. But when he spied Finn being carted off on a stretcher, he charged out of the ring and attacked the rest of Judgment Day before pummeling Balor and then racing the gurney back to the ring, shoving it into the apron and propelling Finn into the ring.

Throughout the match, Damian continued to absorb punishment and keep coming for Finn, rising from being put through a table to drive Balor through the barricade and then tossing him through a table with a Razor’s Edge. He then put Finn down with a South of Heaven, pretty definitively ending their feud.

Damian Priest’s performance was the bright spot in the main event, and if he ends up settling into this role as a hard-hitting outlaw who punishes his opponents then that is a small victory here.