8 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Raw (April 20)

3. That’s More Like It

Shayna Baszler
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Last week, Shayna Baszler stomped on Sarah Logan’s arm once, leading to the match ending, the Queen of Spades leaving and the announcers selling it like she was the devil incarnate.

Monday, they got it a little better, with Baszler going after Indi Hartwell after the match was stopped, swinging her into the barricade and whipping her into a ladder before sandwiching Indi’s arm in the ladder and Pillmanizing it.

That made Shayna looks more like a heartless villain than anything – attacking an already defeated opponent and “breaking” her limb. If she’s going to recoup some of the luster she lost by losing at WrestleMania, she’ll need to snap more jobbers’ arms.

Of course, this item loses points because once again, the ref stopped the match after one stomp of the arm, which in NXT was just the normal course of business for Shayna and her opponents.

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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.