5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (15 Oct - Results & Review)

2. Babyface Test Drive

The strange bedfellows tag team main event had the chance to be a disaster. And while the match itself wasn’t anything to write home about, it did serve as a crucible for Tiffany Stratton as a babyface.

Stratton has been a heel since debuting in NXT despite having an offense that would lend itself very strongly to being a fan favorite. Monday, she teamed with Rhea Ripley to take on Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez after the Judgment Day women attacked the duo in the opening segment. Aside from some arguing early on, Stratton played the face-in-peril role, garnering sympathy, and didn’t betray Ripley.

After the match ended in a disqualification, Nia Jax tried to get Tiffany to cash in on a prone Liv, but Dominik Mysterio saved her. Jax trying to redirect her protégé to focus on Morgan’s title instead of her own plays into the ongoing strife and distrust bubbling up between the two, not entirely dissimilar from Triple H trying to send Batista to SmackDown to challenge for the WWE Championship after winning the 2005 Royal Rumble.

Expect more of these little test drives of a babyface Tiffy in the weeks ahead. They might not go that route, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to see if it takes hold.