5 Ups And 2 Downs From Last Night's WWE Mae Young Classic (Sept 20)

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2. Devi Still Raw

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Maybe it’s the 28 million YouTube video views, but it’s pretty clear that Kavita Devi isn’t ready for the spotlight.

Devi had her first wrestling match at last year’s Mae Young Classic, and she fell to Dakota Kai. She didn’t have another official match until the WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal this April. She literally had five matches under her belt before squaring off against Kaitlyn in the first round of this year’s tournament.

And it showed.

Devi isn’t bad – she just looks like someone wrestling her fifth match. She might develop into a perfectly good competitor, but her match against Kaitlyn was pedestrian at best, with Kavita hitting basic moves before falling in short order to the former Divas Champion.

Maybe by next year’s tournament, Devi will be in double-digits for matches.

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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.