6 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 14)

1. Worst Way To Crown Tag Champs

woman's tag titles
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Let’s get this straight: WWE has been seriously pushing women’s wrestling for a couple years now and is about to resurrect its WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships as the next step in the division’s evolution.

So how do you determine who the new tag champs will be? Why, in an Elimination Chamber match, of course.

No, seriously. The inaugural tag champs will be crowned in a match that does not involve tagging in and out of said match. Tag team wrestling is a style that relies on technical skill and drawing fans into various heat segments, while the Elimination Chamber often is a car crash of crazy spots in a free-for-all atmosphere.

Just a horrendous booking decision. Even the live crowd seemed to key in on this and react negatively at the announcement.

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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.