5 Ups & 2 Downs From WWE WrestleMania SmackDown (Mar 31)

1. How To Make People Apathetic

Liv Morgan Raquel Rodriguez
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Natalya vs. Raquel Rodriguez vs. Shayna Baszler vs. Sonya Deville was a waste of everyone's time. Seriously, how many times do WWE need to present short-lived female tag-teams as besties before realising that no-one is fooled. They're just going through the motions with this sort of thing.

All four women only had three minutes to work with too. In fact, they didn't even reach the three-minute mark before Raquel worked her strongwoman act and scored the win. Fans absolutely will not care about anything outside a few top stories in the women's division unless WWE changes its approach to them.

It's as simple as that.

Christ, even some of those (looking at you, Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley) are a slog. The scraps everyone else in the division has to feed on makes for seriously dire telly though. Rodriguez has been doing this gimmick since debuting on the main roster without moving forward at all.

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