8 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 36 (Part 1)

6. The Flip Side Of Baszler/Lynch

Becky Lynch
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While the mishandling of Shayna Baszler needs to be criticized, we also have to take stock of what WWE did by having Becky Lynch retain her Raw Women’s Championship.

Lynch is probably WWE’s most marketable fulltime wrestler in the company right now and has been on a roll for a year. She’s on cereal boxes and other promotional material, she can talk, and she can wrestle.

WWE is heading into an uncertain time right now. Who knows how long things could be shut down due to the current situation in the world? The company might not be able to get back to putting on live action the way we’re used to for some time. If that’s the case, who do you want to be your standard-bearer? The blood-drawing, stone-faced Baszler, or the wise-cracking Lass Kicker?

Maybe that factored into the decision, because in an ideal world, Baszler could have won the title and Becky could have worked to get it back in a couple short months and continued her reign as The Man. We’ll give the benefit of the doubt, but this was a questionable decision.

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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.