7 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 21)

1. Bury This Rivalry For Good

Rhea Ripley Nikki A.S.H.
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You would have thought getting pinned three times in the span of three weeks would have been enough to kill off a feud, but WWE knows how to push the envelope to the point where you want to just scream at your TV.

Rhea Ripley has absolutely owned Nikki ASH ever since their tag team imploded last month, pinning her in singles action three weeks ago, then pinning her in the gauntlet match last week and again at Elimination Chamber on Saturday.

So of course, we ran back the singles match between the two so Ripley could annihilate Nikki once again, demolishing the butterfly heroine in relatively short order. It’s a completely one-sided rivalry that was dead three minutes after it started, but we wouldn’t be surprised if we saw this pop up again on our TVs in the next week or so.

Rhea’s won, WWE. We’ve all seen it. Just move along.

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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.