6 Ups And 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 5th)
4. Hard Sell For Wednesday
The only redeeming factor of the poorly executed six-woman tag match was listening to the announcers really putting over the 30-minute Iron Woman match between Bayley and Sasha Banks for the NXT Womens Champion at NXT TakeOver: Respect on Wednesday. JBL pointed out how an Iron Man match can be a career-defining moment, and he really gave high praise when he talked about how the women stole the show at TakeOver: Brooklyn and deserved to main event Wednesdays show. That kind of sell made the match feel like it really is an important match and is something any real wrestling fan shouldnt miss. The obvious problem with this is that if WWE can figure out how to make an NXT Womens Championship match feel important, why cant they do the same thing with the Divas Championship? Aside from when Charlotte challenged Nikki Bella on the day she tied AJ Lee for the longest title reign, has there been a title match that felt like it was a really big deal?
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.
