5 Ups & 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 10)

5. Sloppiness Abound

Trios match
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If you heard a match was going to involve Charlotte Flair, Asuka and Shayna Baszler, odds are you’d think it had a better than 50% chance of being good.

But throw in Dana Brooke, Mandy Rose and Nia Jax, mix in some hijinks and you have a crappy match that was botch city at one point. Jax and Rose in particular couldn’t connect on a Samoan Drop exchange, and then Brooke came into flail around. It was embarrassingly bad, like 2014 Divas division bad. (But not Jackie Gayda bad, let’s be fair.)

Still, there’s no reason in 2021, when you have wrestlers who are sitting around with nowhere to go that they haven’t improved or at least rehearsed their match to the point where they can execute a handful of spots passably on television.

We should probably start calling some of these performers the “not ready for primetime players.”

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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.