6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (April 25)

3. Abuse Of Power

Sonya Deville
WWE.com

The heel authority figure has been done to death, but you’ve got to hand it to WWE to not only fall back on one of their favorite tropes, but to then ape an entire routine beat-for-beat and act like it’s original.

Sonya Deville got her Raw Women’s Championship match against Bianca Belair Monday night, but she quickly lost via countout. This led her to declare the match would be restarted as a no-countout match. Then moments later, she used a chair and was DQ’d… only for the match to be restarted as a no-DQ match. Yeah, you can see where this is going.

Then Carmella and Queen Zelina came out to help, but Belair overcame all of this to win. And the fallout for Deville? NOTHING. After last week’s comments from Adam Pearce about her abusing her power, nothing was said about this, or later when she smacked Zelina and Carmella around.

Pearce was able to run out onto the ramp to make an eight-man tag match to open the show, but he was incapable of reining in his fellow authority figure as she ran amok.

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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.