6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 24)

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5. Bayley, Banks Hug It Out

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Let’s acknowledge the positive right away: WWE didn’t stupidly have the storyline pick up right where it left off last week.

Sasha Banks and Bayley said they had a really long talk to hash out their differences, and they realized they had more in common than in contention. They then went out and demolished two jobbers, showing they were on the same page.

At the same time, the ambiguity of where things are (Are they good friends? Interested in each other?) just serves to prolong things while the announcers danced around the obvious question: Are they a couple? Bayley and Banks hugged it out in the ring after their victory, which also left a question open.

It’s hard to give this an “up” after weeks (and really, months) of stupidity with this storyline, and there’s a strong doubt that WWE can handle a grown-up same-sex storyline with maturity. But hey, WWE can always prove us wrong.

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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.