10 Plot Holes On Every Episode Of WWE RAW

6. She's Not Like Most Girls...

Stephanie McMahon Bullets
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...most girls don't mount an anti-bullying campaign one month only to become a bully the next.

Nia Jax comprehensively failed to project authenticity when delivering her rousing post-match babyface promo at Backlash, not that it mattered; she became a bully just a fortnight later when she decimated an enhancement talent to prove to Ronda Rousey that she was impervious to the effects of her armbar...the same manoeuvre with which Asuka has put her away already this year. If there was any sort of long-term plan identifying and protecting this sort of thing, RAW wouldn't be such a mess. Personalities, moves - the effect of everything is retconned to suit the next storyline with no regard to what came before, systematically destroying continuity and its attendant investment.

This week, it was Nia Jax, but the vast majority of WWE performers are bereft of conviction. Kevin Owens veers from chickensh*t to psychopath to funster. His is a well-rounded act, but an incoherent character. It's impossible to determine the effectiveness of Finn Bálor's character, in itself rendering him ineffective as he simply plays a shifting part from week-to-week in a Club of fellow performers with zero - ironically enough - momentum.

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