7 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 8)

5. Bye-Bye Doudrop?

It’s clear to anyone who pays attention that the entire Doudrop character was an abysmal joke, turning a plus-sized female wrestler into a 2021 version of Brodus Clay.

So we should give WWE credit for abandoning it, having Doudrop turn heel by attacking Bianca Belair during the five-woman match for a Raw Women’s Championship shot. The basis was weird, with Doudrop claiming that it was because she felt she deserved a title match instead of Belair, despite having lost two matches against Queen Zelina.

Still, this has to be viewed as a positive development, ditching a crappy gimmick outright. (It also was probably helped by Nia Jax being released, leaving Doudrop to become the brand’s monster heel.)

The common-sense thing would be to return to her Piper Niven moniker too – a heel named Doudrop isn’t exactly striking fear in the hearts of women, and her entrance music and entire persona was tied up in the awful name.

But if WWE trots her out next week with the same name and music, this is going to get a huge negative.