Dear WWE: Please stop doing run-ins and assisted wins to end matches.
I love the occasional run-in or assisted win; when used right, I think they can be a great tool for advancing storylines. However, if they become overused, it gets to a certain point where it feels overdone and repetitive, and “Raw” definitely ran into that issue Monday night — not helped by the fact that almost all of them involved The Judgment Day in some capacity.
Starting off I didn’t mind JD McDonagh and Rhea Ripley helping Dominik Mysterio defeat Ricochet. That being said, it feels like an ending that’s been done so many times over the past few weeks, and it would be nice to see Dominik get a win on his own. The same can be said for McDonagh during his match with Seth “Freakin” Rollins, only this time it was Damian Priest teasing a Money In The Bank cash in while McDonagh didn’t pick up the win. Yes, I get they want to keep the intrigue around when Priest will cash in, but it didn’t really work to benefit anyone as Rollins still picked up the win and the whole thing came off as pretty pointless.
Speaking of Priest, Jey Uso caused a double disqualification in his main event match with Sami Zayn, leading to a huge brawl between them, the rest of Judgment Day, and Cody Rhodes (which, in other words, is essentially the same way “Raw” has ended for the past few months). The only instance where I didn’t mind having an assisted victory was Piper Niven helping Chelsea Green during her Trick or Street Fight with Natalya, as she and Green are a tag team and she was involved throughout the whole match rather than just the ending.
Keep in mind too, this is just from this Monday alone. This has been an ongoing problem for quite some time, but it was especially apparent on this specific “Raw,” and made things quite predictable and stale.

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