6 Ups And Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 23)
3. Naomi And Natalya Have A Non-Total Divas Issue
Kudos to WWE writers: This is how two female wrestlers can get involved in a main storyline and then have their own spinoff issue. If only they could do this more often, and with the actual Divas Championship. Instead, every title angle seems to be rooted in Total Divas, a program wrestling fans dont watch, and those who watch it probably dont watch wrestling. During the WWE Tag Team Championship rematch between the Usos and Cesaro/Tyson Kidd, both Naomi and Natalya would get involved, with Naomi pushing Kidds feet off the ropes. This prompted Nattie to shove Naomi down, then crotch Jimmy Uso on the top rope, drawing a DQ and raising the stakes since it cost Naomis husband and brother-in-law a tag team title shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1NwbvjdCoo Unlike the contrived double-date angle from Smackdown a few weeks back, this was a simple, very logical confrontation that sets up a womens match or a mixed 6-person tag match. So, kudos for an actual storyline involving women that makes sense.
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.
