9 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 25)

By Scott Carlson / April 26, 2016

5. Women Get Shortchanged

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Poor Natalya and Emma. The two grapplers are perfectly capable of putting on a really good match. But rather than giving fans an entertaining bout, we got something much shorter and abrupt.

Emma is an experienced wrestler, but Natalya blew past her in less than three minutes, only slowing down to make sure that Womens Champion Charlotte, who was watching at ringside, didnt interfere. The match actually did the trick, as title challenger Natalya got a convincing victory with the champ looking on, but considering it was the only womens match on Raw, it sucked that the one match was so brief and pedestrian.

Sure, this thankfully has become the exception, not the rule, but it needs to be pointed out when it happens.

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.

Posted On: 26th Apr 2016

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