9 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Raw (May 11)

5. Baszler’s Natural Heel Shines

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Shayna Baszler is such a natural heel that’s it’s funny how just a very simple promo dumping on Becky Lynch’s pregnancy announcement was perfect.

The Queen of Spades scoffed at Becky allowing herself to get pregnant while champ, and then put Natalya in her place when she got in Shayna’s face. Baszler doesn’t need to – nor should she – give long soliloquies about random topics. She just needs to lodge her insult and move on, and let her actions in the ring do the talking.

In this case, Shayna put Nattie down in a brief match where Neidhart hung briefly with Baszler before she got outmatched. Again, simple, yet effective.

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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.