8 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 3)

4. Bowling Shoe Ugly

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When the Bella Twins walked out for their tag match against the Riott Squad, Corey Graves wondered aloud whether the sister would have any ring rust.

It turns out they were Tin Man sans oil can rusty.

Brie and Nikki Bella pulled out the win, but it was not pretty to watch. Nikki was probably the better prepared of the two, but she also stayed within her sphere of regular moves. Brie tried to pull out a suicide dive in her first match back – and it nearly killed her. That’s not hyperbole. Her feet caught on the ropes as she dove and she fell splat on the floor, never really reaching Sarah Logan and Ruby Riott.

The Bellas will hopefully have a handful more matches before they do a turn on PPV (Super Show-Down and then Evolution), but maybe they should do a few house shows away from television first to really get things right.

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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.