7 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw XXX (23 Jan - Review)

5. Impromptu Matches

It’s a really good thing that we got two impromptu matches right in the middle of Raw to make up for the previously advertise steel cage match being called off.

That was snark.

Still, the middle third of Raw was dominated by two matches made on the fly: a six-man tag between Imperium and Seth Rollins & the Street Profits, and Bianca Belair versus Sonya Deville. This isn’t uncommon for Raw these days, but the fact that there actually was a major match announced – Becky Lynch versus Bayley in a steel cage – that never took place due to a Damage CTRL beatdown made this all the worse.

It’s proof that even when you’ve got a major show getting a lot of focus like Raw XXX, WWE can’t help itself to give in to its own tropes.