WWE Raw Power Rankings: Birthday Boy Seth Rollins Celebrates By Retaining Top Spot

14. Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel (last week: 15)

Quick, raise your hand if you thought Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel would be the most entertaining tag team on Raw in 2018. If your hand is up right now, you are a liar. Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel wouldn’t think this.

And yet somehow, here we are. I’ll be frank with you, I thought the execution of the barbecue was so-so, and the placement of it on the episode (right before a gauntlet match that was clearly getting short-changed on time) seemed to doom the segment to failure. But bless Axel and his inability to talk, bless Bo and his ability to make anything seem amazing, and throw a special assist to Titus Worldwide and Heath Slater & Rhyno for putting this over the top.

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13. Mickie James (last week: unranked)

Richmond native Mickie James got basically a featured spot in the gauntlet match — she entered second from the end, and had one of the longer segments of the seven-woman match. The likelihood of James winning the whole thing and qualifying for the Money in the Bank Ladder Match was low, but her performance made everyone in her hometown belive she really did have a chance.

James went up against Ruby Riott, who had already defeated two opponents. It was by far the best part of the match to that point, and James got the crowd going more than they had any right to. Her loss really deflated them for a moment, but hey — Riott needed a handful of tights to score the pinfall, which shows how much of a threat Mickie truly was.