7 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 29th)
4. Alicia Fox > Bellas
While the backstory for Alicia Fox partnering with the Bella Twins is thin, the reasoning is a fair assumption: WWE would like to call up two NXT women (presumably Charlotte and Sasha Banks) to back Paige, so there need to be three opponents for them to face. Additionally, Fox likely becomes the team member who takes the loss in most of the Bella Armys matches. The problem is that Alicia showed Monday night that shes better in the ring than either Bella sister. Paige has faced off against Nikki and Brie multiple times and theyve had clunkers throughout, but she and Fox had a pretty solid match that had fans involved throughout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGA16lCNT4A Fox hit some nice moves (shes always had a good northern lights suplex, and a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker) and unlike her cohorts, she wasnt afraid to play heel, pulling hair, grabbing Paiges nose, etc. Unlike the amorphous Bellas, Alicia Fox did nice work defining herself, and the result was a match that got a good reaction. Imagine that.
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.
