7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 9)

By Scott Carlson / July 10, 2018

3. The Classics Never Die

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There are some things you can count on working in any professional wrestling match, if done correctly.

Monday, we saw how the “hot tag” can fire up a crowd and turn a wrestler into a superhuman in the fans’ eyes. Natalya took a beating from Mickie James and Alexa Bliss, only to make the tag to Nia Jax, and the crowd exploded.

Jax, to her credit, was the proverbial house afire, laying out Mickie in short order and hitting a gorilla press slam and leg drop for the win. It was simple, and it was very effective.

Of course, Bliss immediately waffled Nia with a kendo stick, but the point was made, and Jax looked like a monster. Jax also grabbed the kendo stick and broke it over her knee, just to drive the point home even more.

Authored by Scott Carlson

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.

First Posted On: 10th Jul 2018

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