6 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Sep 20)

4. Ooooh, It’s Personal Now!

Charlotte Flair Alexa Bliss
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Memo to WWE: Some softcore personal, kayfabe-bending jabs and calling each other a bitch does not make a program suddenly interesting.

But that’s what the company was banking when they had Charlotte Flair visit Alexa’s Playground. Alexa Bliss said she wanted to have fun, but Flair instead cut into Bliss, saying she wanted the former champ, the Five Feet of Fury. Charlotte dug at her opponent, saying her new gimmick was all a pathetic attempt to hide how fragile and delicate she really is, then wondered how she went from main-eventing WrestleMania 35 to sharing the ring with a doll.

The segment dragged on with Bliss questioning who Charlotte was if she didn’t have a title around her waist, and it ended with Flair tearing up Charly the doll, a brawl, and Alexa getting the upper hand with a DDT.

If this was meant to start to unwind this childlike Bliss persona, then we’re all for it. But if not, this was a horrible waste in which Charlotte basically no-sold Alexa’s entire character and just shredded it on live TV for no reason other than to sell people on a PPV match no one cares about.

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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.