9 Ups And 11 Downs From WrestleMania 32

by Scott Carlson

1. Living Up To Billing

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The women€™s triple threat match got a boost in prominence during the pre-show when Lita announced that the Divas Championship was going on the trash heap and being replaced with a new Women€™s Championship. But the three women gave fans everything they could have wanted €“ and more.

Charlotte, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks went 100 mph through the match, trading pinfalls, submissions and hard-hitting moves. Each of them had standout moments. Becky hit a variety of suplexes, Sasha flew around the ring with a frog splash and somersault dive, and Charlotte hit a moonsault from the top rope to the floor.

The audience nailed it with a familiar NXT chant, €œThis is wrestling!€ to really let everyone know just how awesome the match was. The women made believers out of any doubters as to how good the three are, and just how good women€™s wrestling could be.

Now, let€™s hope that this actually does usher in a new era of wrestling for WWE women

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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.