4 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Raw (2 Aug)

7. Charlotte Flair's Mixed, Mostly Negative Bag

Using a situation as delicate as Simone Biles' temporary withdrawal from the Olympics to put heat on Charlotte Flair was a cowardly, shameful move from whoever penned the 11-time Women's Champion's promo last night. This was cheap, nasty heat, drawn from a topic that has pulled some monstrous social media takes from cold, uncaring, empathy-deficient mobs over the past week or so, and shouldn't have been touched.

We can't trust WWE to know better than this, but they should know better than this.

This was a typical Flair promo in a lot of ways. Presenting herself as the victim in the ongoing Nikki A.S.H. saga, she cut down Becky Lynch chants with aplomb, saying that she, not the absent 'Man', sold out the Allstate Arena. Charlotte did a good job here. She demonstrated strong crowd control in how she dealt with the chants and delivered everything well, building the idea that other women have been cashing in on her success and hard work to make a name for themselves for years.

Then along came Nikki A.S.H. to prove everything Charlotte said was true, attacking Flair with a steel chair - which apparently couldn't wait until their No Holds Barred match later on. Even with Nikki's new superhero character, which should be as pure as untouched winter snow, there is nobody to root for in this dying division.