5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (29 April - Results & Review)

4. Liv Stakes Her Claim

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Absent the match quality, Liv Morgan had a pretty good night Monday. She called her shot, volunteered for an impossible task and overcame the odds.

Morgan confronted Becky Lynch to make her case for being the new challenger for the Women’s World Championship, but she did not ask for it to be handed to her – even though she was responsible for the circumstances that allowed Lynch to win the title in the first place. And when Nia Jax tried to bigfoot both women, it was Liv who stepped up and accepted the challenge.

The match later on was pedestrian at best, and the outside extracurriculars with Naomi and Tiffany Stratton were a bit contrived, but Morgan was able to do something Lynch has not: pin Nia. That alone is a big feather in her cap and something to tout as the rivalry between Liv and Becky heats up.

And let’s not forget the background scene during a Jey Uso interview where it was pretty obvious Liv and then Dominik Mysterio walked out from a back room one at a time. There’s

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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.