7 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Sept 13)

1. Women’s Tag Chumps

Nikki A.S.H. botched finish
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Why do Natalya & Tamina still have the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship, and why haven’t they defended them in nearly four months?

The duo has managed to lose three times to Shotzi & Nox on SmackDown – but not had a title match to settle it – and then lost to Rhea Ripley & Nikki ASH last week. Then on Monday, Nattie and Tamina lost yet again, this time in singles matches to Rhea and Nikki. It’s just ridiculous at this point, with Natalya talking beforehand about how they dominate, but yet they haven’t even won half of their tag matches in the past three months.

Worse, the Nikki/Tamina match seemed to have a botched finish, with Tamina kicking out at 3.1 but her music playing and being announced the winner. It was bad, and the match itself wasn’t that good either.

Look, you got the feel-good moment for Tamina at WrestleMania and then the title win afterwards, but this is getting embarrassing lately. Either make them dominant and have them win, or have them lose the titles since they lose nearly all their non-title bouts.

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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.