6 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (March 7)

2. Tag Champs Lose Due To Being Horny

Carmella Corey Graves
WWE.com

No, not those tag champs. We’re talking about the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions.

Queen Zelina & Carmella lost a tag match to Rhea Ripley & Liv Morgan, which carried the stipulation that if Rhea & Liv won, they’d be added to the tag title match at WrestleMania 38. So it was the “beat the champs to earn a title match” trope.

Carmella though proved to be extra useless as she rolled outside after tagging out and went over to fiancé Corey Graves and flirted with him mid-match, leaving Zelina alone to take a beating and pinfall, despite Vega and even Byron Saxton yelling at her to pay attention to the match.

The entire scene was surreal, as we have a champion who literally couldn’t pay attention to her match 30 seconds after tagging out because she needed to flirt with her future husband, which presumably was a veiled ad for the Corey & Carmella YouTube show.

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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.