4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 19 - Results & Review)

1. Choo-Choo! Another Forced Promo Train

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Becky Lynch was on her way to completing a really good promo selling the women’s Elimination Chamber match as her first ever and necessary for her to finally have her match against Rhea Ripley (or Nia Jax).

That’s when Liv Morgan interrupted to point out that she has a good personal reason to want Ripley more, given their history as a tag team and Rhea putting her on the shelf for six months. She even pointed out that she was the last person to defeat Ripley, which was a nice little nugget.

And then the floodgates opened. Raquel Rodriguez, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, and Bianca Belair all came out to chatter, and that inevitably gave way to a pier six brawl for no reason other than to allow Nia to come out and squash everyone. Stratton triggered the fight by attacking Liv, but then the other four babyfaces inexplicably paired off and started swinging.

Just a clichéd, forced segment that flushed any goodwill Lynch had built up initially. The only thing missing was Adam Pearce coming out and declaring that he needed a drink after dealing with all those squabbling women.

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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.