4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (March 21)

by Scott Carlson

1. Becks Sold Her Soul

Becky Lynch
WWE.com

“An eye for an eye, a throat for a throat.”

It’s taken what seems like forever, but Becky Lynch finally is disliked by fans. All it took was eight months of relentless pushing and heeling it up while pitting her against the biggest babyface they could find on Raw, the woman Becks initially turned heel on.

Lynch cut a scathing promo Monday night bragging about putting Bianca Belair on the shelf with an injured throat last week. She talked about how she pledged to do whatever she could to regain the title she never lost – even sell her soul. She stared at her title and invoked Gollum for God’s sake.

It was the kind of megalomaniacal promo she needed to cut – delusional, insecure, overconfident, obsessed. She was all of that, and she hit her points solidly.

But one thing she didn’t have to do was rile up the fans to get them to boo her. If this holds, Belair stands poised to be a huge conquering heroine come WrestleMania.

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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.