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Ups & Downs - WWE RAW Stranger Things Review (Jan 6th)

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0

So we have just had our big anniversary birthday, whoop-de-da, Netflix show on Raw. Let's just get

0:04.8

the Stranger Things tired out of the way. I don't know what anybody was expecting.

0:09.0

I mean, WWE put some Stranger Things pop around the place and they turn the camera upside down.

0:15.9

I mean, that's some good creative thinking. You also had Corey Graves and Michael Cole come out as an

0:19.3

ambulance and Michael Cole probably shouldn't have been like, I'm in the 80s again, that was a bit cheesy. And yes, we had the Stranger Things theme. It doesn't matter what we're talking about in life. You have to have the theme. But no, of course, there were no stars from the show. That would have been the worst thing ever. If such, people are not into professional wrestling. Do you remember when we just have the guest toast on Raw and sometimes celebrities would turn up and you could see it in their face, they would rather be anywhere, but in a wrestling ring so we don't need to see that again. It's just an advert. And I'm sure WW made a bunch of money or because they're already with Netflix, it was a ha ha we can have a bunch of fun. Whatever, man. It was what it was.

0:54.5

I don't really care.

0:55.5

More importantly, hello, my friends, and what about us and down? The only wrestling review show you need. You can go tell a friend about this today. You can say, there's this weird bald guy that for some reason sometimes wear his hood's up, and he goes to every single wrestling show, and he gives the good bits and up when it's good, and it gives us a bad bit to down when it's bad.

1:09.8

That was a stupid sentence,

1:11.1

and we do it with this to finger of power.

1:13.1

I'd like to thank everybody that did tune in in 2025, and yes, we are going to do it again in 2006, and do you want to know why? That's interesting, because it has been 10 years of ups and downs. I shouldn't have been doing it this long. You probably shouldn't have been watching. So together, we're massive nerds. Let's focus on the more fun things as well, because our first match was Eoski and Rea Ripley taking on the Kabuki Warriors for the women's tag team championships. And as always, even after 10 years, I got this totally wrong, especially given what happened on Smackdown. I thought the Kabuki Wars were going to retain. That was not correct, and Ria Ripley and Eoskai are your brand new women's tag team champions. Of course, Kairi's saying was saving Oscar the whole time, because that is the abusive relationship they do have, and otherwise, while this was a standard WW tag team match, they're all just so damn good.

2:01.7

Like, after E.O. Sky had been beaten up for ages, and she got the hat tag to Rear Ripley. Not only does Rear Ripley do a great hot tag, but this crowd came, well, kind of unglued. They weren't very allowed for the entire show, which you're allowed to do. But the point is, they were into every single thing here, and we had a bunch of near falls and a bunch of one, two, ooze.

2:18.4

The major, you don't know who is going to win, thought it was very very good. Also want to give a shout to Corey Graves as well who actually gave props to Tanahashi after Eoskai hit a sling blade and I just thought that was nice because let's face it, Tanahashi is an alltime legend. And if you watched that match from Russell Kingdom Man,

2:34.9

if you didn't have water coming out of your seeing devices,

2:37.5

well, I know you were doing it deep down, you tum-tum. Slupt to that dude, he rules. Now, Oscar also had a code breaker during this match, and we saw basically a Wolter Jericho later, so I'd store that in your brain. and no, we did not see Christopher Jericho on this episode of Raw, but the teasing has begun.

2:52.6

And this is exactly what we did not see Christopher Jericho on this episode of Raw, but the teasing

2:51.8

has begun. And this is exactly what we did before CM Punk returned. So I, if I were to hazard a guest, would assume that Chris Jericho is coming in, but the fun is waiting and seeing. And if he does go back to AEW, I mean, good for him. It's always good for wrestling. That's the point because we can get excited about it and make fantasy booking predictions as we want to do. But as long as he goes where he wants to go and where his heart tells him to go, but it's basically the story of Titanic. It's not. There's always this terrifying part when I think it was Oscar, the not Eio Sky, off the top, wrote when she was going for her moonsol and EO landed right on her head, so I hope she's okay.

3:28.1

I think that basically put the fear of death into Rear Ripley, because she tagged in,

3:32.6

they got rid of Kari Seine, all of a sudden Eio Sky hit the moonsault onto Oscar,

3:35.1

then she got hit with the rip tide, actually it was the other way around.

3:39.4

Eoskeye was then, well, I'm going to dive onto Kairi to make sure she doesn't make the save.

4:01.1

She didn't, the referee counted one, two, three, so Ria Ripley just pinned Oscar to become a tag team champion. So now maybe we could do that singles feud down the line. We've basically already done it, but they have such good chemistry together. I think they should go and teach science. You may also get this spin that it's now Kyrie that yells at Oscar, because Oscar did let them down. This was so well put together, and of course we got our first big title change in 2006-4 WWE, and it's a good one because now a bunch of the other teams can

4:07.2

continue this momentum that the women's tag team championships have. I truly do think this is the

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