6 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 22)

3. The Feud… Must… Continue

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Last week, this column gave kudos to WWE for having Alicia Fox win a match over Sasha Banks, seemingly using the stuck-in-neutral Banks to elevate Fox, who has spent most of 2017 solely as a valet.

Monday night, we found out that we were indeed getting a rubber match, which would determine who gained the upper hand in the feud. Sure, that changed the thinking from last week, but at least this mini-feud would be over…

Or not. Banks won what essentially was a squash, only for Noam Dar to get involved afterward and get slapped, leading to Alicia beating Sasha down.

And so, we now have another match between them coming, and it very possibly could be a mixed tag match considering that Noam and Alicia mocked Sasha for not having anyone. True, WWE has to fill three hours a week on Raw, but this wasn’t exactly screaming for an extended feud.

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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.