7 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 13)
1. Women’s Title Merry-Go-Round
In no way should this be thought of as a knock against Bayley winning the Raw Women’s Championship.
However, Bayley winning the title now was likely a bad call.
Bayley’s appeal has been her underdog status, her struggle to win the big one. Witness her chase of Sasha Banks for the NXT Women’s Championship in 2015. It was an incredible story that culminated at NXT’s biggest TakeOver in Brooklyn. But for WWE, they made the decision to pull the trigger on a random episode of Raw, seven weeks before the biggest show of the year, WrestleMania.
Look, if this is going to be Bayley’s big moment, then so be it, and this “down” is somewhat moot. However, if we see Charlotte Flair regain the title yet again at the next PPV, Fastlane, only for Bayley to “win the big one” at Mania and break Charlotte’s PPV victory streak, then this was a stupid, stupid decision.
And after watching Sasha Banks and Charlotte trade the title five times during the latter part of 2016, it’s entirely possible that they’re setting this up for Charlotte to live up to her Queen of PPV moniker and win her fifth title reign at Fastlane.