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

8. The Man Gets Stellar Video Sendoff

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It bears mentioning again, but WWE’s video package department is top-notch.

The people in that office put together a hell of a video tribute to Becky Lynch Monday night, tying together her promo from last week with clips of her NXT debut and rise to superstardom, all the way to WrestleMania 35’s main event. It was a fun little journey, bringing her career all the way to the present, where she relinquished her Raw Women’s Championship so that it could be the real prize in the women’s Money in the Bank ladder match.

The video was a powerful way to send Lynch – one of WWE’s biggest superstars at the moment – off to motherhood without simply replaying last week’s promo with some cheesy music and special effects.

It’s a shame to lose Becky for the next year or so, but she got to go out on top… plus it just writes a hell of an opening for a comeback story in 2021.

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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.