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

5. Bye-Bye Doudrop?

Doudrop Bianca Belair
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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.

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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.