7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Raw (30 Oct - Review & Results)

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7. A Hart-Felt Halloween Tribute

Natalya Chelsea Green
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If it’s Halloween season, it’s a safe bet WWE will have wrestlers dressing up in costume and a plunder brawl will be disguised as a Trick or Street Fight. Tradition dictates these two things must take place.

The street fight between Natalya and Chelsea Green was fine for what it was, with the tag champ picking up the win with some help from her tag partner, Piper Niven.

But the real highlight had to be Chelsea and Piper being dressed up as the Hart Foundation, with Green as Bret “Hitman” Hart and Niven a perfect Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart. This was a rare instance of the costumes making sense, considering Chelsea’s opponent.

Piper absolutely nailed her costume, stroking her “beard” and laughing in a backstage segment. And Chelsea was great as well, not only hitting the Hitman pose on the ramp, but also pretending to give her sunglasses to a young fan, ala Bret, before pulling them back.

On a show where WWE didn’t lean too heavily on Halloween, this one venture into the silly felt like a fun diversion on the show.

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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.