The Judgment Day’s First Night Under Rhea Ripley’s Leadership Ends in Double Disappointment

There is a lot of tension growing every week in the Judgment Day. The faction has been facing two major opposing forces in Damien Priest and Finn Balor. But tonight’s Raw saw someone pick up their slack and act as the leader. Even Michael Cole pointed her out as the clear leader of the group. But it looks like Rhea Ripley didn’t do a great job at leadership.

When you see the results of Raw, you might find Ripley winning over Candice LeRae, but her leadership skills were severely lacking in the main event spot. Not only did the faction lose only once, but twice under her care.

Rhea Ripley fails to prove her leadership at WWE Raw

As it was clear at the start of the show, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were looking for a fight against The Judgment Day, any of its two members. All throughout the show, we got snippets that Balor and Priest weren’t on the same page and didn’t want to partner up together. But when they couldn’t sort their issues out, Ripley forced them to go in as a team for the main event.

This would prove to be a bad decision as, in an attempt to help Balor, his friend, JD McDonagh threw the Money in the Bank briefcase. But Owens was at the receiving end and he hit Balor with it to end the match. But even that would’ve been enough failure for one night for The Judgment Day.

Instead of that, Cody Rhodes came out and challenged the faction to a six-man tag-team match and they accepted. Even in this match, the chemistry between the group was off and Ripley’s leadership didn’t help at all. Instead, they suffered another embarrassing defeat to this impromptu team in the middle of the ring, clean and fair.

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With these fails, even twice on the same night, the question pops up if The Judgment Day will continue to stay together. While Ripley and Dominik Mysterio are having great title runs, the other two aren’t in the best situation. The title that Balor chased for, that’s the same title that WWE keeps teasing that Priest is going for the same one. The tensions are rising right now, but we’ll have to see how it goes next week.

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