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

by Scott Carlson

1. No Words Needed

Rhea Ripley Becky Lynch
WWE.com

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.

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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.