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Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder defend their titles against The Dutch Destroyer & The One and Only.

For a couple of months now, The Revival and Aleister Black & Ricochet have been two tag teams on seemingly opposite trajectories. The former completed their march to the top and hit rough sledding almost instantly, while the latter got thrown together as a tag team and seemingly haven’t lost a match since. (They’ll challenge for the NXT Tag Team Titles on Friday following their victory in the 2019 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic). Suffice it to say, it’s not every day the champs walk into a title defense as seeming underdogs the way Dash & Dawson did on Raw, but the “Top Guys’” retention was far from a certainty, and it took every bit of cunning and rule-bending in their very deep playbook to attain.

That said, give credit where credit is due to The Revival for finagling a count-out victory following a brawl outside the ring when Scott Dawson hid under the ring and grabbed hold of Ricochet’s ankle, allowing Dash Wilder to beat the count. Black & Ricochet got payback in the form of a Black Mass and 630 to the champions, but for all their upward trajectory, they’ve ironically found themselves bouncing up against the same glass ceiling the “Top Guys” used to slam against. They’ll likely break through eventually. Just not tonight.