7 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 4)

1. Keep The Mic Away From Ronda

Ronda Rousey
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For all the positive strides she has made in her rookie year, the one area where Ronda Rousey has fallen short is when she grabs a live mic.

Rousey doesn’t deliver the WWE cookie-cutter promos, which is a good thing, and she does have moments that are great. But she also gets flustered and jumbles her lines, particularly when crowd reaction gets out of hand. Considering she’s heading into WrestleMania season and facing arguably the most popular superstar on the roster, that’s only going to get worse, which means she could flub something dramatically.

Ronda mush-mouthed part of her backstage encounter with Becky Lynch, and then when raging at the crowd and Riott Squad after beating Liv Morgan, she got flustered and bumbled a bit of that.

It happens, and this is not a cardinal sin, but if this is one of your biggest matches on the card, then you can’t afford to have one of the wrestlers tripping through her promos as the intensity magnifies.

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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.