6 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Raw Superstar Shakeup

6. New Champs Lose Quickly

Naomi Bayley Raw
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Whatever you want to say about Sasha Banks’ rumored temper-tantrum, if she and Bayley were indeed upset about losing the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships so quickly, you might have to agree with them after Monday.

On Raw, new champs the Iiconics quickly – and we mean quickly – lost a non-title match to Bayley and new partner Naomi in a match that was blink-and-you’ll-miss-it. Naomi nearly beat them by herself, with Bayley starting the match, tagging out quickly and only hitting a Bayley-to-Belly on Peyton Royce to take her out of the match.

If you’re Banks and Bayley though, you’ve got to be steamed about being the inaugural champs and losing your titles after less than two months to a duo that then loses a match to a patchwork team in less than three minutes.

It’s just confounding.

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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.