4 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Raw (Oct 18)

1. Short Queens Crown Matches Persist

Shayna Baszler Doudrop
WWE.com

We haven’t crunched the exact numbers, but the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the inaugural Queen’s Crown tournament are in the can, and it’s not pretty.

Six matches involving eight women, and not a single one lasted 3 minutes. If you tallied up the times, the six matches would collectively clock in around 10-12 minutes. By comparison, the shortest King of the Ring match was longer than all four first-round women’s matches combined.

This is just embarrassing, especially for a brand new tournament that needed credibility to actually matter and mean something. You’d think that in unveiling this tourney, they’d huddle up with the eight women and ask them to show up and show out. Instead, we got the weakest possible tournament, with 2-minute sprints that were forgettable.

Worse, watch WWE talk about how “prestigious” the tournament is and how much it means, completely oblivious to reality because they believe their fans have the memory of goldfish. Just pathetic.

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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.