7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 13)

4. More Time On The Hamster Wheel

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Speaking of matches that seemed like time-filler…

Ever since they reconciled, Sasha Banks and Bayley have continued a “running in place” act, battling the Riott Squad in some fashion for the past three weeks. There’s been no mention of Banks professing her “love” for Bayley, so that antenna-raising line has been seemingly dropped.

Monday’s match between Sasha Banks and Ruby Riott was fine for what it was, but there was no real advancement, just another match involving the same players. It actually was the sixth match on Raw involving the duo and Riott Squad members in the past two months.

Is this going somewhere? Maybe if WWE rolled out the rumored Women’s Tag Team Championships, it would make a little sense, but this just was more filler.

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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.