7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 4)

5. Nice ‘Match’

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Was WWE already running 10 minutes behind when they had their second match of the night?

Natalya versus Ruby Riott might not have set the world on fire as a rivalry, but Monday’s contest was just awful. They managed to botch a reversal before quickly going to a Sharpshooter, which Riott reversed to a rollup, which Nattie then reversed for the pin. And that was it.

It was embarrassingly short, especially when you consider that these two women had a feud over Riott breaking Natalya’s father’s sunglasses, which included a tables match at TLC. That 12-minute PPV match seems like a lifetime ago.

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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.