9 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 3)

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4. So Wait, We’re Doing This Again?

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(It’s not 100% clear whether Asuka/Becky Lynch II is just a one-off next week, or if it’s laying groundwork for WrestleMania. This column will offer an up and a down for each possible scenario. Feel free to sound off in the comments.)

After building up Becky Lynch versus Asuka at the Royal Rumble as The Man facing the one challenger she’s never beaten, they blew it off by having Lynch rightly win…

So they could come back and build toward a rematch at WrestleMania? What?

Who booked this? If this is being set up for Kairi Sane causing a DQ and leading to a Mania match between the two, it will be idiotic storytelling. They told a pretty decent story leading up to the Rumble, and Becky getting the win made sense. But they easily could have done this for WrestleMania, with Lynch unsure whether she could beat Asuka.

So, if this is leading to Mania, this just shows how shortsighted WWE is these days.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.