9 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 18)

3. At Least It Was Brief

IIconics Alexa Bliss
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Question: Have the IIconics have one good wrestling match since they were called up to the main roster? Or even one passable match?

The obnoxious duo returned to Raw last week and earned a title shot by defeating the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross. This week, they got that title match… and promptly lost by DQ in less than 3 minutes. The match itself wasn’t even decent. The IIconics got about 30 seconds of offense before Bliss tagged in and hit Twisted Bliss, only for Peyton Royce to break up the pin and get overzealous throwing Alexa into the post for the disqualification.

The Aussies then teased dissension when Billie Kay slapped Royce for costing them their one title shot, but they hugged it out.

This wasn’t terrible, but after a “big return” and victory over the tag champs, to have things go down like that was just a head-scratcher.

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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.