8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 16)

4. Tag Teams Ascendant?

Viking Raiders Gallows Anderson
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Perhaps it’s way too early to speculate, but seeing a couple recent developments does leave you with a little hope.

After weeks of grumbling about the Viking Raiders simply beating up jobbers, we’ve seen the duo mix it up with other top wrestlers the past two weeks, joining with Cedric Alexander Monday night to tangle with the OC. That pits the Raiders against Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows, a formidable duo in their own right.

We also got the aforementioned promo from the Authors of Pain, signaling their imminent return to WWE, which could make for great matches with the other two teams. And word has circulated that The Usos, absent from WWE TV for two months, could be returning this fall.

If all of that comes to pass, we could be looking at a pretty decent tag division – if WWE actually decides to promote it properly and focus on tag team wrestling, and not continue to have singles wrestlers beat up whole tag teams.

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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.