8 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 25)

2. Noticeable By Her Absence

Becky Lynch
WWE.com

One Raw superstar was conspicuously absent during Seth Rollins’ opening temper-tantrum Monday night: his fiancée.

Becky Lynch was nowhere to be seen on Raw Monday night, and while that was likely by design, it really has to count against WWE, as Lynch anchored Survivor Series by competing in the main event and losing the match when Bayley submitted to Shayna Baszler. Lynch could have evened Raw up with SmackDown, but that didn’t happen, so she could have faced some criticism from “locker room leader” Rollins.

Also, if Lynch had been out there for the Raw town hall, there’s no way The Man would have stood there and taken that lecture, which would have sowed seed of discontent between the couple. And we couldn’t have two real-life couples at odds in storyline, right?

Still, Becky being absent was very noticeable, and it didn’t make a lot of sense for one of Raw’s top stars to take the week off with no mention after her brand was embarrassed and her boyfriend held a roster meeting without her.

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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.