4 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Jan 28)

3. Finally, Some Heel Comeuppance!

Naomi Sonya Deville
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Finally!

Though it might've taken WWE 85 years (they said 153 days, but who's buying that after sitting through everything?) to get here, they finally gave Naomi her much-needed win over Sonya Deville. Is this something they should've done months ago? Yeah. Is it a good thing they didn't get cold feet when it mattered most? Also yeah.

It'll take Sonya a while to shake off the ring rust. She hasn't wrestled regularly in a long-assed time, so anything fans got here was always going to be slow and deliberate. It was definitely that, and yet it wasn't bad. This was preferable to all those screwjobs that bored the hell out of everybody, put it that way.

Naomi is now finely poised to have a good showing in the Royal Rumble. She should absolutely toss Deville over the top rope to the floor there too, then maybe move on to a proper crack at Charlotte Flair's SmackDown Women's Title. Or, WWE might prefer somebody else in that role...

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