6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Monday Night Raw (3 November - Results & Review)

3. Women’s Tag Hums

Just a few short months ago, there were serious questions about whether Kairi Sane and Bayley were in a funk or had lost a step. Both women looked off in the ring, leaving some perplexed.

Fast-forward to Monday night, with the Kabuki Warriors taking on Bayley and Lyra Valkyria in an action-packed match that saw all four women deliver. Kairi once again wrestled with a confidence not seen until the Kabukis reunited. Bayley has proven repeatedly that she is quite good as a tag team wrestler, and that was on display here.

While it goes without saying that Lyra has been mostly incredible in the ring and Asuka is… well, Asuka, both of them had some great sequences together. Two standouts: Valkyria went for her dropkick through the ropes on Asuka but missed, only for the Empress to deliver a head kick and German suplex on the floor in a slick sequence; and the finish, which saw Lyra leap off the ropes for a back elbow but got caught with a flying Asuka Lock for the tap-out victory for the Warriors.

Tag champs Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss ran down to make the save, setting up the tag title match for next week.

Very quietly, Raw has built a women’s tag division in the past few weeks that already dwarfs the men’s division. Monday night alone featured five women’s tag teams, with four of them being well-established and capable of delivering the goods on any given night. That’s quite impressive work.