Best and Worst of RAW- 31st December, 2018

#3 Worst: Slater, Rhyno, Mahal and the others

Do you remember the time when he was the reigning WWE Champion?

I think Rhyno and Slater are an entertaining act. I loved their Tag Team on SmackDown Live. But what made that act compelling was their backstory. Now, Slater and Rhyno are just bodies filling up time on the show.

Jinder Mahal took the world by shock when he became WWE Champion. It takes a lot to get a heel over. They already have a credible heel in Mahal.

.@Rhyno313 is BACK and taking control over this 3-on-2 Handicap Match on #Raw! pic.twitter.com/1EQthUV0Zz
— WWE (@WWE) January 1, 2019

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Instead of just throwing a match together on RAW where the crowd is not invested in the action at all, it would have made sense to maybe have these men in the battle royal. They could have had some kind of a storyline that leads to a match like this in the near future.

Rhyno's return as Santa Claus wasn't enough to get the audience interested in this contest.

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