5 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Raw (June 8)

1. Needs More Charlotte

Charlotte Flair Raw
WWE.com

Opens Raw. Wins tag match. Lays out Raw Women’s Champion. Gives mid-show interview. Gets slapped by champ. Closes Raw. Wins singles match against Raw Women’s Champ.

Charlotte Flair was legitimately on screen for more than one-quarter of Raw Monday night, with a 10+ minute tag match, a 25+ minute singles match, the opening segment, match intros, and the interview. That is just a ridiculous amount of time on TV for any wrestler, but for Charlotte, it’s what WWE probably deems necessary.

The company seems to be in this mindset that we need more Flair on our screen, having her show up on all three brands, main-eventing Sunday’s NXT TakeOver event, and then opening and closing Raw the next night.

None of this is to take away from Flair’s talents, but it’s just overkill at this point. You almost expect her to single-handedly win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship so she can legit appear on each brand at will.

Clearly, WWE brass doesn’t know the definition of “moderation.”

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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.