8 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 24)

3. ‘This Is Stupid’

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Unfortunately, arm wrestling matches did not get booted from WWE when Scott Steiner did.

The brick-wall crash that was an arm wrestling match took place Monday between Bayley and Dana Brooke after Dana’s upset (and botched) win over Bayley. Brooke missed using the ropes for leverage and still got the pin. WWE sold it as an upset (it was) and Dana demanded a rematch to prove the fans wrong. Bayley had her shoulder taped up, so naturally the arm wrestling table was brought into the ring and Dana made her use the bad shoulder first.

Fans booed and chanted that they wanted wrestling, but we endured Brooke winning right-handed, then delivering a cheapshot when doing it left-handed, attacking Bayley’s injured shoulder. But just to make sure Dana didn’t look too strong, Bayley caught her with a Bayley-to-Belly to chase her.

Seriously, what was the actual point of all of that? Had Dana decimated Bayley and left her with her arm hanging by a thread, it would have at least made some sense.

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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.