7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 23)

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7. The Boss Strikes Back

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For the past few weeks, we’ve seen Sasha Banks get her butt handed to her by Nia Jax. It was only natural that things would turn around at some point.

Monday, Banks got a modicum of retribution, attacking Nia with her crutch and breaking it over her larger adversary. Sasha then proceeded to leap off the apron and hit double knees on Jax while she was on the floor. It wasn’t a big beatdown, and the still-injured Sasha more or less retreated afterward while Nia recovered.

But it did make this rivalry a little less one-sided and showed that Banks – despite being a three-time Raw women’s champion – is going to have to be the plucky underdog in this fight.

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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.