5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 7)

3. Belair Battles Through Injury

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WWE is very quietly continuing its efforts to rehab Bianca Belair’s character in advance of an expected WrestleMania push.

Monday night, the EST of WWE succumbed to a Nikki ASH attack that injured her knee, but she managed to fight through the pain and overpower her opponent, slamming her all over the ring on one leg. Belair pulled off some impressive power moves for a wrestler supposedly hobbled, and then nailed a KOD for the gritty win.

There wasn’t much to this one, but if you were planning to have Bianca competing for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 38, you’d want her to go into becoming the #1 contender with a bit of momentum.

That’s exactly what this was in a rare bit of subtle storytelling. Kudos.

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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.