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

2. A Riveting Title Match

Rhea Ripley Nikki A.S.H.
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Dear God, can we just toss a stick of dynamite into the women’s division and start over?

The WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship was supposed to be an outlet for other women on the roster to get TV time and ply their trade. But here, the tag title match was a horrific showing, a terrible match that was punctuated by Nikki ASH getting the win by rolling up a distracted Natalya who apparently was so flabbergasted by Rhea Ripley attacking Tamina outside that sat motionless for 15 seconds.

Yep, Nattie had Nikki down and was going for the Sharpshooter when Ripley attacked Tamina, which apparently was more than enough for the 21-year veteran to lose focus for 15 seconds, which is an eternity in a wrestling match.

But hey, new champs! So forget all of that!

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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.