8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 16)

by Scott Carlson

1. Bayley, Banks Continue Heelish Ways

Sasha Banks
WWE.com

Watching Bayley straddle the line between full-on heel and pseudo-babyface is really weird. She still dresses the same and panders to the fans, but she’s clearly doing it as a favor to the crowd rather than just being herself.

Bayley’s heelish tendencies were on display as she took Alexa Bliss out of their tag match by attacking her knee viciously, leaving Nikki Cross in a 2-on-1 situation that she couldn’t overcome. It resulted in Nikki eventually falling to the former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, but not until we saw some venom from Bayley and Sasha Banks.

And this match then set up Becky Lynch saving Cross from a steel chair beatdown, which in turn set up a challenge for the next PPV, with Becky and Sasha looking to square off in Hell in a Cell.

That’ll do.

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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.