8 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Nov 12)

1. Embarrassing Tag Team Division

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Last week, AOP reached the top of the Raw tag team division by defeating one man – Seth Rollins – who defended the tag titles alone.

Monday, we saw the entire tag division wiped out by one man – Braun Strowman.

Suddenly, that mountain AOP climbed looks like more of an anthill.

We’ve seen main-event stars beat up lesser wrestlers before, so that’s nothing new. But having Braun mow through every other tag team in the division single-handedly does nothing except ensure that no one buys any of them as challengers to AOP in a fair fight.

If WWE wanted to have Braun do something like this, book an Ascension/B-Team match to open Raw and save the other four teams that were in there. At least that would have been a bit more believable too.

It’s just absolutely stupid booking, getting a momentary pop at the expense of any planning whatsoever.

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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.