5 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 1st)
2. Wrestling Damsel In Distress
On the one hand, giving Naomi any kind of storyline outside of Total Divas is a welcome development. Giving Jimmy Uso something other than facepaint to distinguish himself from Jey also is a positive. But a few things were messed up about the entire Miz flirts with Naomi and says he can help make her a star trope. First, it was tacked on. The tag title match already was set. We didnt need a soap operatic reason afterward to care about it. The entire Miz flirting and Jimmy standing up for Naomi bit should have happened before the tag team turmoil match, giving the Usos extra reason to stay in the fight and win. Second, its 2014. Are we really doing the dont talk or look at my woman storyline? Heres hoping we dont also get a bit with Naomi not understanding what Jimmys problem is and how she thinks Miz is just being friendly. Then we know the writers are doing a high school drama. JBL also pointed out a flaw: Miz is married, to a former WWE Diva no less. Their wedding photos were on WWEs website, so this is canon. So that means one of two things: A married Miz was flirting with another woman on live TV, or he was honestly trying to help Naomi. You decide.
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.
