6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (15 July - Results & Review)

3. Deaf Ref

WWE Raw Shayna Baszler Zelina Vega
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Wrestling fans often have to suspend their disbelief, accepting certain unbelievable moments as perfectly reasonable.

But it’s nearly impossible to accept that the referee in the Zelina Vega/Sonya Deville “match” didn’t hear Vega screaming out in pain multiple times just ten feet away as Shayna Baszler attacked her on the apron while Zoey Stark distracted him. She writhed and yelled while Baszler snapped her arm, and the ref didn’t flinch, when fans in the concession lines could hear her.

Worse, the match itself was awful, lasting less than two minutes and featuring Deville eating a satellite DDT and a 619 before the distractions kicked in, leading to Sonya finishing Vega off with a reverse DDT variant. It was a bad match with bad interference, leading to Lyra Valkyria, Kayden Carter, and Katana Chance making the save.

And the crowd went… sub-mild.

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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.