4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (July 19)

3. Intentionally Bad Promo?

Becky Lynch
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If you buy into the concept that Becky Lynch’s “Big Time Becks” persona is a façade that will fade away when she realizes she can’t get the job done, then it becomes easier to overlook the ridiculous outfits and a lot of her mannerisms.

And then, you have to consider her train analogy promo on Raw. It was atrocious in some respects, amusingly bad in others. Lynch rhymed and made bad “dad joke” puns involving trains as she traced her post-WrestleMania 38 career, ending by telling the fans that when she regained the Raw Women’s Championship at SummerSlam, they’d meet her at “appreciation station.”

The promo was so bad – and kicked off a Raw promo train with Bianca Belair and Carmella – that it had to be on purpose. It had to be intentionally bad as part of this Big Time Becks gimmick, right? This wasn’t something some writer thought was gold.

We’re going to roll with this as being bad on purpose rather than something thought to be good. It at least makes it tolerable.

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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.