7 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (1 December - Results & Review)

5. Women Go For It

WWE Raw Rhea Ripley Alexa Bliss
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Throw Rhea Ripley, Iyo Sky, Charlotte Flair, and Alexa Bliss into the ring and give them about 15 minutes, and they can do incredible things.

Raw’s main event was trending toward really, really good when the Kabuki Warriors ran down for the double-disqualification, but the action leading up to that non-finish deserves praise. Ostensibly for the right to challenge the Warrior for the Women’s Tag Team Championship, the tag match became a battle of attrition, with Ripley at one point dragging Iyo’s carcass to their corner so she could tag herself into the match, and Rhea and Charlotte teeing off on each other after Alexa and Iyo were knocked out.

Both teams landed some tandem finishers, but the partner made the save each time as fans grew louder as the uncertainty about who would win increased.

The double-DQ finish knocks this down a peg because it renders so much of what happened moot and guarantees that this match will be forgotten in no time, rather than being a signature victory for one of the two teams.

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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.