8 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 13th)
7. A Random Tag Partners Match That Works
WWE loves to do makeshift tag team matches where it takes four guys involved in two feuds and partner the faces together against the heels. It typically becomes a match that just doesnt work, at least not as well as the bookers probably envisioned it. But Mondays bout pitting Randy Orton and Ryback against Sheamus and Big Show actually worked pretty decently at the end. Mizs antics on the outside helped immensely, but once Show chased Miz out of the arena, the real fun came when Sheamus channeled his inner Batista and gave Ryback the thumbs down, only for Orton to slip in behind him, mock the pose and RKO him. Ryback hit the big splash for the win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TUbsgEBlrw It helps when you have a crowd that is really into everything as Mondays crowd was but it just looked like things clicked nicely for the finish. Not every positive is going to be earth-shattering, and while this one was a small part of Raw, it still was good to see.
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.
