WWE Raw Results: Highlights, Analysis, and Grades for January 30

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Cesaro, Sheamus, & Bayley vs. Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, & Charlotte Flair (Six Person Mixed Tag Team Match)

Result: Cesaro, Sheamus, & Bayley defeated Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, & Charlotte Flair via pinfall

Rating: 2.9 out of 5 stars

First things first, Cesaro wearing the streamers and playing with the Bayley Buddies is almost as good as Sheamus wanting nothing to do with it.

I get that the teams were set up as “women’s champ and tag champs vs. their challengers,” but anyone else find it funny that one team is single named competitors and the other is first/last names? Just me, then? Okay.

While the mixed tag match idea as a whole as executed by WWE is dumb, I like that all the participants interacted. Charlotte distracting Cesaro so Gallows could dump him out of the ring is logical, but it never really happens.

Back from commercial, Team Mononym was in a bad way, as Cesaro badly needed a tag. Every time he got close, he was pulled back, sometimes viciously.

Eventually Sheamus got in and put a hurting on Gallows, but Charlotte interjected again, slapping the Celtic Warrior. Shaking that off, the former Raw Tag Team Champions proved they can still work together.

It would come down to Bayley and Charlotte, and wouldn’t ya know it, Bayley pinned the Raw Women’s Champion! Some day, a road agent will get the point across that maybe the champions should be winning these matches, but clearly not today.

Stephanie McMahon Deals With Mick Foley

“You didn’t talk to me!”

“You made me look stupid!”

“Too bad, I’m doing what I want!”

“Well, I’m doing what I want!”

“Fine!”

“FINE!”

And, scene.