6 Ups & 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 3)

3. Doudrop Whines

One of the big differences between WWE and AEW is supposedly that AEW puts value in a wrestler’s win/loss record, while WWE has amnesia about whether a superstar has ever won a match before putting them into a program.

Witness Monday night, when Doudrop stormed into Adam Pearce & Sonya Deville’s office to demand that she not be overlooked or jumped over in line for a Raw Women’s Championship match. She wanted her shot, not to see another title match given to Bianca Belair or Liv Morgan.

Fair enough, but Doudrop had to say this with a straight face after losing her last six televised matches, including three straight to Belair and two to Queen Zelina. Maybe if she had, who knows, won a match or two the past month, we could stomach that line. But when you’ve got a roster of nine other active wrestlers, there are a limited number of opponents.

Yes, heels lie. But when you trot them out there to say something so blatantly false with a straight face, it give them no credibility whatsoever.

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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.