8 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 28)

by Scott Carlson

1. The Man Makes Her Presence Felt

Ronda Rousey Becky Lynch
WWE.com

After fans relentlessly chanted at Ronda Rousey for Becky Lynch, you had to hope WWE would deliver rather than wait until SmackDown. And once again, they came through.

Lynch limped down to the ring to lay into “Ronnie” about how Rousey is the Baddest Woman on the Planet, but she never came looking for Becky after she invaded Raw last year and attacked her. She didn’t mince words and told her that she was using her Royal Rumble victory to choose to face Ronda at WrestleMania.

And boom, just like that, we got our match for Mania. And we got a hell of a moment to send the fans into a frenzy.

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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.