9 Ups & 1 Down From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Sept 25)

2. Look At This Photograph

Becky Lynch Charlotte Flair
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Bloody hell, this was fantastic.

Preening, pompous, prima donna Charlotte Flair was backstage, indulging her own colossal ego with a televised photoshoot, because her vanity knows no bounds. In came badass Bizarro World heel Becky Lynch. She leapt out of nowhere, throwing her obnoxious foe against a flight case several times, talking trash, then coming off all Conor McGregor, demanding the photographer "take the champ's photo" with a boot planted on Flair's ribs and the SmackDown Women's Championship in the air.

Though they'd be foolish to expect anything else at this stage, WWE probably didn't want the crowd popping like crazy here. Regardless, this brief backstage snippet was all we needed from Becky and Charlotte this week. It closed on the powerful visual of the beloved fan favourite stood above the fallen company woman, basking in her own domination over Flair and the division without consuming too much airtime, making it a perfect microcosm of SmackDown's general efficiency last night.

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