7 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2018

5. Sowing Seeds For The Future?

Charlotte Flair Ronda Rousey
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The post-match beatdown Charlotte Flair put on Ronda Rousey could just as easily have been issued by Becky Lynch if she had still been in that slot, and you have to wonder if that was the point – the beating was what was important, not the person issuing it.

Rousey was walloped with a kendo stick to the point where there were marks across her arm and back. She was Pillmanized with a chair after being dropped by Natural Selection on it. And for suffering that beating, Ronda was booed by the Staples Center.

You could almost see Rousey looking like she either was going to quit, or completely turn on the fans. It was the second time inside of a week that Ronda got beat up by a WWE Horsewoman and the attacker was loudly cheered. And if that was the point – sowing the seeds for Rousey to become the villainess and enlist her charges to help her – then that’s actually really great work.

If it was just a happy circumstance, this still was a pretty cool visual and showed a vulnerable side of Rousey while elevating Charlotte and the women’s division a little more.

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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.