9 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 6 )

3. Raiders Tear Through Tag Champs

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The current NXT Tag Team Champions annihilated the Raw Tag Team Champions Monday night, and no one blinked.

The Viking Raiders made short work of Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins, running through the tag champs in a non-title match on Raw. Ryder & Hawkins tried employing quick tags, but they were ridiculously overmatched.

You’ve got to believe that this signals the end for the Ryder & Hawkins experiment. A month as tag champs where no one cares anymore is long enough. Hopefully, the Raiders earned a tag title match at Money in the Bank, where they run through the champs just as quickly to have this tag division turn a corner.

And hopefully, the Viking Raiders can keep the same name until then.

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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.