7 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 26)

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5. To Turn Or Not To Turn

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Right off the bat, hats off to Bayley for short-arming Sasha Banks. Not enough for its own “up,” but a good moment nonetheless.

However, after a stomp that seemed to signify a heel turn, Sasha was right back teaming with Bayley, playing face-in-peril in a six-woman tag match. Meanwhile, Mickie James went from a casual ally of Alexa Bliss to full-on heel in one night, with no real reason given.

So to recap, the woman who all-but turned heel was playing face, and the face who had a cautious alliance with a heel led a heel beatdown of a face.

None of this is particularly horrible, but it’s just the kind of thing that’s confusing without some context or follow-up. The random shifts plagued the women’s division for years, and hopefully this was just an aberration.

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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.