4 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (15 December - Results & Review)

4. A Hot Finish Doesn’t Redeem Tepid Tag

Once upon a time, the New Day versus the Usos was appointment viewing, a can’t-miss tag team battle between two of the most decorated duos in WWE history.

But in 2025, it was an opening match on a mid-December Raw with minimal promotion. And it wasn’t very good either.

New Day was just off their excellent tag title match against AJ Styles and Dragon Lee, so it’s clear that they still can deliver in the ring, but the newly reunited Usos have regressed as solo acts in recent years, and they don’t have any of the zip they used to as a tandem.

Large swaths of the match played out to silence – which was strange because the crowd had been white-hot for Gunther just minutes earlier – unless they were yelling “Yeet!” whenever Jey Uso did something. Things got a bit hotter toward the end with the finishers and saves, but that’s just typical WWE shortcut booking and the Pavlovian response from fans.

It’s just hard to watch Jimmy and Jey stumble about, throwing the kind of weak-looking superkicks you might have dished out to your mates at university when playing around. Jimmy’s spear looked horrible, and then he completely whiffed on his half of a 1D, rendering it a simple flapjack.

Either way, Usos won, so they’re back. Whatever.