5 Ups & 5 Downs For WWE Raw (11 Aug - Results & Review)

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5. Becky Tried

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Call this a noble failure.

Maxxine Dupri gave it a go, and Becky Lynch did her level best, but there really wasn’t much chance their Women’s Intercontinental Championship match was going to amount to anything more than a curiosity. Could Maxxine hold her own under the bright lights against The Man?

They tried, with Lynch dominating early and beating Dupri down, but Maxxine’s comeback was cursed, with a poorly timed cartwheel out of an anklelock reverse, followed by a handful of punches that missed by a foot. The match limped to a finish after a rollup reversal sequence gave way to Becky’s Disarm-Her for the tap-out.

The idea behind this was sound: The arrogant heel champ cherrypicked an out-of-her-depth challenger with the intention of demolishing her, only to be surprised by a flurry from the babyface. The problem is that Maxxine just isn’t her. And that’s not fair to Dupri – she was thrown on TV way too soon and hasn’t had the opportunity to grow and learn.

Honestly, though, WWE should figure out something with Maxxine. Either make her a full-time valet, send her to NXT to do a house show loop or three, or “hide” her in a tag team.

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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.