The Judgment Day absolutely died for me when Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley left, and it’s been floundering, stale, and cold ever since. Well, maybe that’s a lie, I thought the Priest/Ripley vs. Dominik Mysterio/Liv Morgan tag team match was pretty good, but even that didn’t include the rest of the Judgment Day, and I didn’t really consider it a Judgment Day storyline. Which could therein be the problem, the faction isn’t exactly working together anymore, anyway. The faction is all but fractured. Morgan, Mysterio, and Raquel Rodriguez are basically in a storyline all of their own, and they’re only seen together in their “clubhouse” where Morgan gives orders to Finn Balor and JD McDonagh to focus on the tag team championships. Which, also sucks, because Morgan is no Ripley when it comes to being a female leader of the group. She’s not a dominating presence at all, and it feels incredibly forced.

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I’m also extremely tired of Balor’s obsession with Priest. Balor needs to get over the loss and focus on getting to the World Heavyweight Championship himself, if that’s what he’s even after. He scolded Mysterio for not winning the match last week, and Priest moving on to face GUNTHER, but why didn’t Balor interfere, or better yet, try and get into the match himself? None of it makes sense and I’m really tired of it.

I think it’s time for Judgment Day to end, and the splits are pretty clear already. Mysterio, Morgan, and Rodriguez can go off in one way, as their relationship storyline with Rodriguez as their bodyguard doesn’t need the rest of the faction behind it. Balor and McDonagh could remain a heel tag team, and Carlito could finally get one last singles run, something he deserves and hasn’t really got since coming back to WWE.

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This week’s weird backstage segment with the group just felt flat, uninteresting, and had me realizing how much this isn’t working anymore. Not in a bad way, I suppose, but much rather in a boring, meaningless way. No one is helping anyone anymore, interfering in matches or even being at ringside, because all the guys are trying to show they can do things themselves. Then… why have a faction? No one feels important, outside of Morgan, when she remembers she has the Women’s World Championship to defend, so a faction isn’t doing anyone any favors. Judgment Day had a good run, once it finally got off the ground, but it’s unimportant, and time to fade off into a nice, purple sunset.

Written by Daisy Ruth