WWE Raw matches ranked from worst to best: Ricochet rules, Garza debuts

With matches ranging from a Triple Threat for the WWE Championship number one contendership to the debut of Angel Garza, let’s rank Raw’s matches from worst to best.

The Feb. 4 episode of Raw is in the books and beyond segments like WWE NXT Champion Rhea Ripley invading the show to challenge Charlotte Flair, or Randy Orton’s “explanation” for attacking Edge, the show was not too bad in terms of match quality.

In fact, across seven matches, tonight had some really good matches. But of course, there were also some bad ones, so let’s get those out the way first before we gush about the good stuff.

7. Eric Young vs. Aleister Black

This was … a match.

Yes and a worse match than much shorter contests on this show. Which, perhaps the shorter matches were worse in their own right with their own problems, but I at least remember why I disliked those matches. They at least left some impression on me.

Eric Young vs. Aleister Black was just … a match. Besides Young getting his head kicked off, per the usual case with Black’s matches, I couldn’t tell you a thing else that happened in this match. The match was just forgettable and to me, being forgettable is far worse than just being bad.

I love Aleister Black, but this ain’t it.

6. Liv Morgan vs. Lana

I’m still not entirely sure why this match was … a match. Truth be told, Liv Morgan and Lana had a better than decent (dare I say, good? I know, controversial opinion) match last week and Liv’s win seemed to signal the end of this storyline. Except … it’s not.

For some reason, they had a rematch this week and while I did not go back to check the time stamps, I doubt it went much longer than a minute.

I’m not sure I can really even call this a squash match, as Lana got the bulk of the offense in before Liv Morgan hit her finisher (which is a wicked finisher, mind you) out of nowhere for the win. In theory, while that in itself can be criticized, that kind of set-up is not always a bad set-up for a match.

Except in this case, where it felt like both participants were rushing to get what little spots they had out of the way (which, to be fair, they didn’t have all that much time to do so). It notably paved the way for a strange, awkward (perhaps mistimed) spot where Lana feigned an injury to catch Liv Morgan off guard, but it had no effect on Morgan and led to a bizarre collision of sorts.

Anyway, this match was bad, but Ruby Riott returned to enter a feud with Liv Morgan, which is good and has potential.