10 Live Observations From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 35

6. Brooklyn, Britain & Bayley

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Brooklyn, Britain and Bayley It’s long been a dream of your writer to see Bayley and Sasha Banks do something of significance on the moan roster in Barclays Center that mirrored their legendary 2015 TakeOver clash.

HashtagRawAfterMania wasn’t going to be the night - ‘The Boss wasn’t even on the card despite featuring on the marketing up to and including show day - but Brooklyn simply had no love left for Bayley.

How, exactly, has this happened?

Alexa Bliss was warmly received on what was hopefully her return to full-time action, but ‘The Hugger’ got no love. British voices wailed their unending love for her with a song that’s stuck since NXT’s 2015 TakeOver tour, but the natives refused to get involved. Dean Ambrose later praised the people within the building that helped birth The Shield in late-2012 (and more on that later), but those same people have all forgotten the transcendent landscape-shifter that took place three years later.

One night removed from a WrestleMania main event that once could have been saved for the other two Horsewomen, this was a huge disappointment.

 
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