7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 19)

6. Triple Threat As A Plot Device

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Ordinarily, having Mick Foley go back and review the tapes of the women’s #1 contender’s match and change the PPV title match again would simply be a negative and we’d just move on, blaming the GM for being indecisive and this becoming a little too convoluted.

But the writers worked a nice angle into the segment, with Dana Brooke pointing out that Bayley and Sasha Banks had pinned each other last week and that neither woman had earned a one-on-one Women’s Championship match. Foley said that that inspired him to make the Clash of Champions title match a triple threat, which further enraged Charlotte, who has been at odds with Dana in recent weeks.

While that didn’t factor into the women’s tag team match later, it was a nice touch to keep the frustration level of the champ high. If she loses her title on Sunday – especially if say Sasha pins Bayley – expect Charlotte to blame Dana and take it out on her.

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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.