8 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Extreme Rules 2017
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8. At Least It Was Short
We’ve already picked apart the Raw Women’s Championship match for what it represented in the de-evolution of Bayley, but let’s give credit for what it got right.
The match itself was mercifully short. Even more importantly, the women pulled the kendo stick down from the pole very early in the match, so we didn’t get 20 slow climbs to the top with the opponent stopping them at the last second. That would have been brutal.
And once Alexa Bliss got her hands on the kendo stick, she proceeded to waffle Bayley with it repeatedly, and save for a Bayley-to-Belly, it was all Bliss. The women’s champ beat Bayley soundly and pinned her in short order, rather than the match dragging out. It amounted to an extended squash, but if that’s what we were going to get, at least it didn’t go 10 minutes.