7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 25)
2. Total Disaster
Get settled in and used to seeing Paige, Natalya, Brie Bella and Alicia Fox in an endless stream of matches for the next several weeks. Now that Total Divas is back, WWE has to figure out a clever way of promoting the show on Raw. And by clever, we clearly mean, Put the cast members in short, meaningless matches with no consequences and no stakes, only slightly varying the participants week to week. Unfortunately, only those four women are on the active roster right now, with Amanda and Eva Marie in NXT, Rosa Mendes pregnant and Nikki Bella out with a neck injury. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ItClfSK8Q So were probably going to see Brie and Alicia versus Paige and Natalya over and over. Youve got to feel for Paige, who went from having 10-minute PPV matches for the Divas Championship to the same two-minute womens matches that prompted the #GiveDivasAChance movement in the first place. Uggh.
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.
