7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE SmackDown (28 Feb)

By Jamie Kennedy /

1. Bayley Eating The Pin

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Bayley was doing great without spotlight hog Sasha Banks by her side.

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Banks has been back one night and she's already being cast as a bigger star than the SmackDown Women's Champion again. Think about that, then realise how stupid it is. Bayley was coming into her own without Sasha, but she's now back in that backup role without showing any kind of resistance against it.

WWE's booking called for Sasha to save Bayley on more than one occasion before the champ ate a pinfall from Naomi, presumably to set something up for Elimination Chamber. It's fine if Bayley and Naomi are wrestling again, but did they really need to make the former look so weak here? If anyone, Sasha should've lost.

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Bayley went from making history by becoming the first woman to retain a title in Saudi Arabia to looking second-rate to her partner and tasting defeat. Her momentum is all over the place right now, and that's poor when things were starting to look up.