8 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Extreme Rules 2017

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8. At Least It Was Short

Bayley Bliss
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We’ve already picked apart the Raw Women’s Championship match for what it represented in the de-evolution of Bayley, but let’s give credit for what it got right.

The match itself was mercifully short. Even more importantly, the women pulled the kendo stick down from the pole very early in the match, so we didn’t get 20 slow climbs to the top with the opponent stopping them at the last second. That would have been brutal.

And once Alexa Bliss got her hands on the kendo stick, she proceeded to waffle Bayley with it repeatedly, and save for a Bayley-to-Belly, it was all Bliss. The women’s champ beat Bayley soundly and pinned her in short order, rather than the match dragging out. It amounted to an extended squash, but if that’s what we were going to get, at least it didn’t go 10 minutes.

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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.