4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 16)

4. The Replacements

Despite being set weeks ago, the Raw women’s Survivor Series team was shaken up on Monday night when Dana Brooke and Mandy Rose were removed because they were injured.

WWE official (they really need to come up with a better title for him) Adam Pearce then announced that Lacey Evans & Peyton Royce would take their spots on the team. They’re both such vital parts of Raw that they haven’t had a match since last month, when they both lost a fatal four-way Lana won to earn a spot on the Survivor Series team.

Think about that: the two women named to the team haven’t been seen on Raw in weeks. And then when they finally showed up, it was a dreaded “comedy” segment where they tried to strategize with Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler, who scared them off. What an all-star squad this is.

Also, it’s worth noting again the IIconics were forced to break up months ago, and after doing nothing with Peyton for long stretches, she’s inexplicably in a tag team with Lacey, because… why not?

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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.