8 Ups And 11 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 33

5. Women Die In Death Slot

Natalya Naomi Carmella WrestleMania 33
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Ugh. Just ugh.

The SmackDown Women’s Championship match would have been better off being held during the kickoff show rather than being shoehorned into the main PPV. As it turned out, the six-pack challenge was given about one minute per participant, and it ended with Naomi in her hometown winning the title she was forced to vacate earlier this year due to injury.

Beyond that, at least we can say there were no restholds in the match. And James Ellsworth got a Bexploder suplex for his troubles. Beyond that, it was a speedy mess to get in everyone’s 30 seconds of moves, pinfalls and breakups.

But hey, they all got to make their entrances and have a match. Soooo… yay?

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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.