6 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (28 August - Results & Review)

1. Not The Best Selling Point

Becky Lynch Zoey Stark
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Whether it was a “send the fans home happy” moment or just an admission that this feud hasn’t done Becky Lynch any favors, Monday’s main event result was a serious head-scratcher.

Heading into a steel cage match that will presumably end her feud with Trish Stratus, Lynch battled Trish’s protégé Zoey Stark in a Falls Count Anywhere match on Raw. It might as well have been booked as a 2-on-1 handicap Falls Count Anywhere match, with Stratus jumping into the fray liberally.

And yet, The Man overcame the odds to topple Stark after heel miscommunication sent Trish through a table, leaving Zoey alone to get put through a table herself via Manhandle Slam.

How is that supposed to sell that Trish has a chance when she’s locked inside a cage with Lynch, ostensibly without backup, if the two of them can’t beat Becky here? Even if (or when) Zoey gets involved Saturday at Payback, they’ve already shown that the bumbling heels are no match for Big Time Becks.

This just felt incongruous to the story they’d want to set up here, which makes you believe it was a “send fans home happy” deal on the back of Bray Wyatt’s sudden death.

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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.