9 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Aug 19)

4. The Boss Brutalizes Nattie

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So about Sasha Banks’ non-answer in her interview…

After walking out on her interview, Sasha re-emerged to cut off a brutally bad promo from Natalya, attacking Neidhart and further injuring her arm. She give her some serious lip too, telling her to go to hell – and say hello to her late father while she was there.

The attack mostly saved her earlier dodge, but it still bear mentioning that a solid promo could have really launched this Banks reboot. Brutalizing Nattie certainly helped, but remember that Becky Lynch came out two nights after SummerSlam 2018 and tore into the fans and Charlotte Flair after turning on her and then tangled with the Queen, and it only made Becky a bigger star.

The point is, we could have gotten both things from Sasha Monday night. We got her non-justification (a down) and then her attack later (an up).

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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.