4 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 5)

9. So Lana Walks Into The Ring…

It really is beginning to feel like a punchline to a bad joke.

Lana is ringside after losing a match. Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax storm the arena and Jax hits a Samoan Drop, driving Lana through the announce desk. The Ravishing Russian is laid out, the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions gloat, and that’s that. Lather, rinse, repeat… three times.

We get it: Lana’s husband left WWE and is now working for the competitor. Lana is an inexperienced wrestler. Let’s put her through her paces a bunch of times for no reason other than to do it.

As always, if this was leading somewhere, anywhere, we could give it a pass. But WWE has engendered zero trust when it comes to follow-through on stuff like that. Lana will just keep getting flattened over and over as long as it entertains the brass.

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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.