6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 14)

5. Setting The Table

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You can almost see this coming down Broadway.

Natalya picked up the win for her team in the six-woman tag match Monday night, tapping out Liv Morgan with the Sharpshooter. This came on a night where her friend and protégé (of sorts) Ronda Rousey was gifted a Raw Women’s Championship match at Money in the Bank.

Odds are that Rousey will ask Nattie to help her train, while Neidhart will hopefully (if they’re booking this correctly) pick up wins in the coming weeks. This would lend itself perfectly to Natalya becoming jealous that Ronda gets a title shot after one match, while she’s literally had hundreds of bouts in WWE.

If you wanted to find a way to screw Rousey out of the Raw women’s title, this is one way to do it. Let’s see if this actually is what they have in store.

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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.