5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (5 Dec - Review)

1. No Words Needed

There’s a feeling you get when you see two wrestlers together that you hadn’t considered as a matchup, and suddenly it’s all you can think about, almost desperate to see the two lock-up.

It’s understandable if you got that vibe when Becky Lynch and Rhea Ripley came face-to-face in on the ramp Monday night before Ripley’s triple threat with Asuka and Bayley. Rhea slowly made her way down the entrance to Lynch before the two stopped and stared down the other, changing places at one point, but keeping a steady eye on the other.

No physicality, no words, but plenty of tension. That’s the kind of thing you can’t manufacture, though wrestling promoters desperately wish they could create it out of thin air. Suddenly, this is a matchup this writer wants to see with some stakes.

Ripley and Lynch have met in singles action once before, three years ago in NXT, which went to a no-contest.