9 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 8)

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6. Oh So Predictable

When Divas Champion Charlotte came out for a match and Raw broke for commercial before her opponent was introduced, how many immediately knew it would be Alicia Fox? If anyone said €œno,€ then they haven€™t been following women€™s wrestling in WWE at all. When you have a title match against one member of a faction, you beat the other member cleanly before the PPV. It€™s just common sense when it comes to WWE logic. Fox is still a member of Team Bella (really the only €œteam€ left standing, unless Naomi and Tamina are still palling around), and since Brie Bella has a Divas Championship match at Fastlane, Charlotte needed a tune-up against Alicia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTbBl263Xg It isn€™t that that is bad (or that the match was bad, as it was fine for what it was), but when everyone can predict matches just based on typical WWE booking patterns, that should tell the company that it has become far too predictable and unimaginative.
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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.