6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (Results & Review - 22 Jan)

DOWNS…

4. Women’s Tag Team Melee

On paper, Triple H is booking the women’s tag division logically. He sets up challengers by identifying teams, and then having them win matches to earn a title shot.

That doesn’t make it interesting.

Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell battled Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark in a match between two teams who won their respective bouts last week, an unofficial mini-tournament to name new top contenders from Raw. Baszler and Stark won a short, inoffensive match that was forgotten seconds after it ended, with the supposed babyface champs Kayden Carter and Katana Chance confronting them.

Then seconds later, the Kabuki Warriors jumped KC-Squared to establish their title match on SmackDown. The problem here is that none of it felt like it mattered, except for Damage CTRL getting the tag titles because they’re an over act and feel like stars, while everyone else just feels like warm bodies to take up time and space on Raw.

That’s a horrible feeling, but it was very difficult to muster any emotion for any of this until Asuka and Kairi Sane attacked.