7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (Results & Review - 16 Oct)

1. Those Messy Women’s Divisions

A scattered, messy feel is hurting the singles stuff on the women's side too.

Rhea Ripley still hasn't had a concrete one-on-one feud to hang her hat on for longer than a month, and now she's been shoved into a five-way scenario for Crown Jewel. Hopefully, that match turns out to be fun, but it's nonetheless true that defending her title is secondary to everything else Judgment Day has going on.

If anything, wrestling women like Shayna Baszler and defending her prize on PLE feels like a nuisance to 'Mami'. That's a problem WWE must solve, but not by going the "open challenge" route Becky Lynch is with the NXT Women's belt. Becks will defend that strap vs. Indi Hartwell and Xia Li soon, apparently, and neither bout seems particularly interesting.

Raw's writers need to scan their own work in the main event picture and with the epic Bloodline story to find solutions. They can surely come up with situations and storylines way more exciting than all of this. There's nothing for fans to really chew on.