7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 25)
4. Setting Up A Triple Threat?
It would be easy to criticize the abrupt nature of the Sasha Banks versus Becky Lynch match on Raw, especially considering it was a solid PPV match in NXT and has been treated as an afterthought in WWE. But in this case, the brief battle between the two served to set up a run-in from Charlotte, who took out both women to stand tall over them. This came 24 hours after Charlotte defended her Divas Championship against Becky with a little help from her father Ric Flair, only to be assaulted by a returning Banks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTdJRXiW1Y All of this seems to set up a triple threat Divas Championship match between the former NXT stars, which would be a hell of a WrestleMania match if thats where WWE is heading. If they are indeed building toward that, it could be a watershed moment for womens wrestling (provided its booked right and given time). Weve got 10 weeks to see if they can pull it off.
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.
