The Judgment Day internal power struggle is getting messy
If you thought the constant bickering within Judgment Day was just background noise, think again. Finn Balor stepping into the ring with JD McDonagh on Raw wasn't a standard exhibition. It felt more like a public school principal forced to discipline his favorite but perpetually annoying student.
Finn took care of business, putting JD away with his usual technical efficiency. But the post-match sequence told the real story. Dominik Mysterio decided to cash in on the heat and jumped Finn from behind. It was the kind of opportunism that fits Dom’s character perfectly, but it backfired spectacularly.
Dom finds out that jumping a former champion is a losing bet
Dom clearly thought he had the jump on a winded Balor. It turns out that even when he is distracted by the inner workings of his faction, Finn is still a predator. The attack from Dominik lacked the precision required to keep a guy like Balor down for good.
You have to wonder what the endgame is here. The group is starting to resemble an HBO drama minus the good writing. Every week someone is stabbing someone else in the back, and the synergy that made them a top-tier stable is eroding before our eyes.
The booking problem with internal feuds
My gripe? We have seen this specific flavor of "who is the real leader" angle a thousand times. When you put stablemates against each other, you risk making everyone look weak. JD McDonagh is talented, but he is currently stuck in the role of being the punching bag who moves the plot an inch forward.
The creative team needs to decide if this faction is a legit juggernaut or a soap opera. If they burn through internal drama this quickly, they are going to run out of credibility by the time they hit Backlash 2026 in May. A group needs to look like a threat to the rest of the locker room, not just a threat to its own members' blood pressure.
Finn looked focused in his earlier vignette, and it is clear he has stopped caring about the group's hierarchy. Whether he breaks off to start his own project or stays to eventually burn the house down, we are looking at a 3-minute beatdown that sets the tone for the coming weeks. Dom is lucky Finn decided not to finish the job tonight.
