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#3. Hope isn't true: Backstage news on the botched finish of the WWE RAW Tag Team title match

A decent match with an odd finish

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The New Day have been in a feud with The Hurt Business - a team who could very well end the WWE RAW Tag Team Championship reign of one of the most dominant tag teams in WWE history.

WWE likes to stretch their feuds out, and a dusty finish on the November 23rd episode of RAW was an indicator of this pattern. In the WWE RAW Tag Team title match, the original plan was reportedly to have The Hurt Business win, per Bryan Alvarez on WOR. Alvarez proceeded to explain that the double count-out was a botch that happened:

"I was told that the finish of the match was supposed to be that the Hurt Business would win via count-out, but they are supposed to call it like a shoot, and they didn't get in the ring fast enough, and so the referee called it a double count-out. Then The New Day, for some weird reason, they were all heelish last night. They start backing up the ramp celebrating that they defended the titles via double count-out, and MVP the heel cuts the promo saying, 'the fans don't want to see this, you're not gonna take that, are you? Get back in this ring, and let's restart it.' So yes, it was a botch, but it wasn't like a big time botch. It was just one guy who didn't get back in, so instead of a normal count out, it was a double count-out."

We hope this isn't true because such botches are always unfortunate situations that lessen the match quality. Luckily, it didn't cause too much chaos or confusion.