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One-half of The B-Team takes on one-half of The Revival, one night removed from their Raw Tag Team Title SummerSlam Kickoff Match.

The B-Team have kept their Raw Tag Team Titles from The Revival largely on a combination of luck and canny exploitation of tag-team rules. More power to them. Without those protections, however, Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel might be more vulnerable than they’d like to admit.

The champs’ post-SummerSlam afterglow was spoiled ever so slightly when Scott Dawson knocked off Dallas in the first of two singles matches between the two teams. In fact, save for an elbow from Dallas that kicked off a brief rally, the match was almost all Dawson: The “Top Guy” brutalized Dallas with every old-school tactic he had in his arsenal, grinding his elbow into Bo’s head and ramming his dome into the turnbuckle en route to victory. Axel was quick to rally his team, immediately entering the ring to goad Dash Wilder into their own match.