8 Ups & 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Mar 20)
Ups…
8. Just Like Old Times
Ignore a quite Dallas crowd presumably knackered from chanting one word so solidly at the top half of a fabulous broadcast, because Charlotte and Natalya yet again proved how reliable their chemistry is when not hamstrung by atrocious booking or p*ss-poor segments like the one that had just aired.
It's something of an epidemic in the organisation at the moment - lots of wrestlers are substantially better without a storyline that with one thanks to creative cul-de-sacs or script sh*thousery. These two have had pay-per-view feuds with less appealing matches than the one they assembled on an edition of SmackDown Live! in which they had absolutely no chance of being star attractions on.
It was maybe Flair's best effort since dethroning Natalya last December, and up there in the second tier of matches they've had nestled below their NXT TakeOver classic.
Scoring a win over the Champion probably won't exactly lodge her into title contention either side of WrestleMania, but Natalya reminded the audience (and her bosses) what she could still bring on her best day, and a strong performance in the frustratingly stake-less WrestleMania Battle Royal looks likely on this evidence.
Ditto for her sidekick...