4 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Backlash 2017

5. Women Provide Bathroom Break

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There was a brief period when the women’s matches on any PPV were must-see bouts. Unlike previous years where they were an opportunity to check out the concessions booth, they had become highlights at a show.

However, Sunday’s six-woman tag match pitting the Welcoming Committee against Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch and Naomi was about as forgettable and skippable as it could be. The most memorable part of the bout was Lynch’s fire-red Mohawk. The “action” was pedestrian – not bad, but not good either – and could have existed on SmackDown rather than PPV.

Hopefully, we will see things pick up before the next blue brand PPV, because the women on the roster have the skills and should get the chance to actually put together a good performance.

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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.