7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw Superstar Shakeup

3. When Sloppy Becomes Dangerous

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We can excuse some of the miscues and chalk them up to Charlotte Flair being knocked loopy when a Nia Jax shoulderbreaker actually walloped her head, but that women’s match was a dangerous, hot mess.

Jax’s aforementioned shoulderbreaker looked so bad that Nia momentarily broke character after basically driving her knee into Charlotte’s head and then dropping the Queen onto her crown. Afterward, Flair and Jax continued through a semi-awkward match that included Charlotte performing an ill-advised moonsault to the floor, kicking Nia in the head on the way down and splatting on the floor (rather than being caught/landing mostly on her feet).

It was the kind of match you winced your way through and just hope that neither woman got hurt too badly – other than their pride.

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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.