7 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (13 Feb - Results & Review)

2. Choo Choo!

Bianca Belair
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If your wrestling program is opening up with a promo that gets interrupted multiple times, all to set up the main event for that evening, then you’re clearly watching Monday Night Raw.

The show opened with Becky Lynch in the ring acknowledging that she lost focus on WrestleMania in the name of toppling Damage CTRL and asking Adam Pearce to let her fight her way into the Elimination Chamber – a good babyface virtue.

But this brought out Bayley so the two could verbally spar and read off their Wikipedia pages to each other, only for Bianca Belair to trot out and suggest that if either woman wanted to get to Mania to face her, they should have to go through her, setting up a triple threat for later.

Yes, we have to fill three hours of programming, which is why we get 10 minutes of patter rather than just an announcement for the match. But it’s all meaningless stuff, just to get to what ideally would be an outstanding triple threat match.

But hey, explain again how there isn’t enough time to get other superstars onto Raw each week?

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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.