5 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 29)
Downs..
10. Sudden Stop
Have you ever slammed on your cars breaks when traveling at 60 mph (97 kph)? Everythings cruising along just great and then suddenly, everything is thrown into disarray.
Thats what the #1 contenders match for the Divas Championship looked like Monday night. Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks were putting together a pretty nice little match not a classic by any stretch, but a good, solid bout trading pinfalls and reversing submission holds. They were just starting to bring out the big guns when Sasha hit a sunset bomb on Becky, but both womens shoulders were counted down for a double pin.
Now, a lot of fans have speculated that that is exactly what was going to happen, with a triple threat between Sasha, Becky and Charlotte at WrestleMania being a logical (and potentially awesome) conclusion. But that didnt mean that the ending needed to be stapled onto the middle of a match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA_aDIl6BBs
It felt like there was another third of the bout left, with both women hitting each other with their big offensive moves, wearing each other down until the double pinfall felt natural. (See the NXT #1 contenders match between Sami Zayn and Samoa Joe as a good example.)