6 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 26)

4. Another Subpar Bayley Match

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Can any regular viewers of SmackDown clue us in? Is Bayley as SmackDown Women’s Champion really working?

Her SummerSlam match against Ember Moon was seriously lacking, and her bout on Raw against Nikki Cross was all-but phoned in. It looked like one of those old wrestling video games where you just performed a bunch of moves until you could keep your opponent down long enough to hit your finishing maneuver.

Also, knocking off one-half of the women’s tag champs in under four minutes – without really breaking a sweat or being in serious danger – is just a bit much, don’t you think? It’s not like the women’s division is all that big.

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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.