8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 1)

5. Cruiserweights Return To Action

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You could be forgiven if you were a little shocked by some of the cruiserweights who came out for the six-man tag match on Raw.

Tony Nese, Brian Kendrick, Noam Dar, Rich Swann and Akira Tozawa had not been seen on Raw since before WrestleMania XXXIII, with nearly all the focus of the division squarely on champ Neville, Austin Aries, TJ Perkins and Jack Gallagher (the sixth man in the tag match).

So it was good to see the other five men in action on Monday, putting them back into the mix on Raw and letting them showcase some of their talents in an entertaining tag match. It might not have huge bearings on the future for the victors, but sometimes it’s about face time, and five of the six men had not had any of that for quite some time.

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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.