7 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 15th)
5. Divas Reinforcements Coming?
This has to be a setup, right? Paige pleading her case against the Bella Twins to the Divas locker room and then getting stood up during her two-on-one handicap match against Nikki and Brie has to be leading to something bigger. It cant just be that someone (Natalya? Naomi?) is going to stand with her to fight the Bellas. The way Paige kept talking about the Divas needing to stand together and how the sisters have run the division and how the women walked out on her meeting at the mere mention of Stephanie McMahon suggests that someone new is going to come in to aid Paige. If all of this is setting up for Charlotte (and possibly Bayley and Sasha Banks) to show up on Raw to fight off the Bellas, then power to WWE for actually putting together a storyline to introduce her (them). Charlotte is more than ready, as its been several months since she lost her NXT Womens Championship to Banks and is just hanging out in secondary feuds lately. She needed to be promoted a while ago. Charlotte could bring Bayley or even Banks along at least temporarily to ward off the Bellas, or she could go it alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKKLpOxW5L8 The WWE Divas division is long overdue for some fresh talent to raise the level of in-ring performances, and if this is setting up some arrivals, then its a great way to it. But if this is just setting up Alicia Fox joining forces with Paige, then just throw your hands up.
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.
