8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 2)

3. AOP Cleans Up

AOP Dallas Axel
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After the Authors of Pain hung in there with The Shield last week, it seemed clear that the hulking duo was destined to move past jobber teams quickly.

That came Monday night when AOP attacked a celebrating B-Team to annihilate them in short order, putting them down with a Super Collider. Just like that, Akam and Rezar put the tag division on notice that they were coming.

It will probably be a little while before they’re elevated up the card for a tag title shot, but it was good to see them get some shine Monday night, presumably moving into matches against “established” wrestlers now.

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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.