8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 15)

6. New Alliances Formed?

Revival Usos
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If we’re to believe and accept that Raw was a reset of sorts, then the opening match provided a nice realignment of wrestlers.

After a six-man tag match between Revival & Robert Roode and Ricochet & Usos ended, AJ Styles and The Club walked out, leading to an all-out brawl that ended with The Club standing tall over a fallen Ricochet.

But the interesting thing here was the teaming up of Revival & Roode, who worked together during the brawl, and the Usos providing backup to Ricochet, who has been fighting all three members of The Club alone – which cost him his United States Championship Sunday night.

If this holds, you just created two new three-man alliances, which can go a long way toward giving more wrestlers a role to play on Raw. And that’s a really nice way to get things going here.

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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.