8 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (15 April - Results & Review)

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8. Making Lemonade

Rhea Ripley
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There is no real “on the other hand” to Rhea Ripley’s injury. Her situation is a huge loss to Raw and WWE as a whole.

The only positive that can be gleaned from it comes if the Eradicator is only on the shelf for about three months and is able to return sometime around SummerSlam. In that scenario, the company has the opportunity to play up Liv Morgan’s role as the attacker and shine a spotlight on the rest of the women’s division in her absence, and then have Ripley play the conqueror when she returns.

Having Rhea tear through the division to reclaim the title she never lost would be a great story to put her right back on top of the mountain, and it would imbue her with momentum for WrestleMania 41 and whatever huge confrontation WWE has in mind (Bianca Belair?). There was always the real potential of trying to stretch Ripley’s title reign out to two years facing a lull, and this would mask that lull with the injury.

Of course, this is purely speculative at this point and is just an attempt to put a positive hypothetical spin on a terrible situation.

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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.