6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (Results & Review - 15 Jan)

1. Not Their Best Foot

Candice LeRae Indi Hartwell
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Generally speaking, if you’re getting a video package setting up a televised win, it probably means you’re getting pushed, so it would behoove you to shine in the ring.

Unfortunately, that’s not what happened on Raw with Indi Hartwell and Candice LeRae, who stumbled through a sloppy, heatless tag match against Chelsea Green and Piper Niven. The four looked to not only be on different pages, but reading from different playbooks altogether. The finish – an assisted elevated Lionsault – was badly botched, followed by Indi trying to go for the pin despite not being the legal wrestler. It was an appropriate coda to a bad match.

The video package wasn’t bad, but the theme was basically that they’ve underperformed on the main roster and no one thinks they can be successful – hardly a rallying cry for fans to get behind them. And it showed in the match. To make matters even worse, their new entrance music was “Generic Wrestler Entrance #37,” completely emotionless and uninspiring.

It’s a shame, because LeRae deserves a much better opportunity to show off her skills on the big stage, rather than toiling away like this.

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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.