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This week on Raw, quite interesting things happened as we finally got a reunion from The Shield, Triple H addressed Batista's attack on Ric Flair last week, Ricochet and Aleister Black almost became Raw Tag Team Champions.
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Another major angle that took place on the show was RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey returning after she dropped her title in front of Stephanie McMahon on last week's show, as she wanted Lynch to be reinstated in WWE.
Stephanie McMahon reinstated Lynch back to WWE on last night's Raw and made a match between the latter and Flair for the vacant Raw Women's Title at Fastlane.
But, Rousey came back in the closing segment of Raw and attacked Becky Lynch. Now, Lynch is still expected to face Flair at Fastlane, if she wins that match, she gets added back to make it a Triple Threat at WrestleMania 35.
Here are five reasons why Rousey assaulted The Man on Raw...
#5 Social Media exchange
If any of you don't follow Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch on Twitter, you wouldn't know the off-script interaction between the duo this past week. The interaction was quite heated and too much next level that wasn't appreciated by the fans and neither by WWE.
Fans were so disappointed that most of them started supporting Charlotte Flair whom they despised after she replaced Lynch to face Rousey at WrestleMania 35. But now fans have tweeted it is better that she is part of this match.
You can have a look at the Twitter exchange between Rousey and Lynch:-
Rousey actually threatened Lynch for involving her husband into this interaction, it's possible this attack was made up by WWE to calm down Rousey after that ugly twitter exchange also Rousey said on her blog she doesn't need to work in WWE anymore.
So, WWE might have taken this action to keep her with the company for the foreseeable future.
#4 Complete the heel turn of Ronda Rousey
Raw Women's Champion apparently turned heel when she returned to Raw to claim her title back after she dropped it on last week's show and then went on to brutalize Lynch. This could have been the beginning of a Ronda Rousey heel turn.
There were rumors that last week's ugly twitter exchange between the two was all done to turn Rousey heel.
The attack on Lynch has now completed that heel turn with fans jeering her when she almost broke Lynch's arm.
Now WWE will definitely do some more angles with Rousey to make her a full-blown heel by the time we roll towards WrestleMania, with Flair also being a heel, it leaves Lynch as the only babyface which is what WWE wanted in the first place.
Rousey's character can be similar to Brock Lesnar as she can show-off her success in not only in WWE but even in UFC. WWE can put Paul Heyman with Rousey as a way to get more hatred from the fans.
#3 To give a meaning to last week's angle
Last week on Raw, after Becky Lynch brawled with Ronda Rousey, The Baddest Woman On The Planet asked Stephanie McMahon to reinstate Lynch and put her into the Raw Women's Title Match at WrestleMania 35. After that, Rousey dropped her title and demanded Stephanie to make the right decision.
Now obviously this angle was leading somewhere, and definitely, it did when there was a Twitter beef between Rousey and Lynch, as well as the RAW Women's champion's heel turn that occurred this after she brutally attacked The Man.
Nowadays in WWE, many angles are not clearly explained and the very next week are forgotten.
Such as when Lynch was replaced by Flair to face Rousey at WrestleMania 35, it didn't clearly make sense and WWE did nothing to make it look sensible.
But this angle completely made sense, if Rousey wouldn't have dropped the Raw Women's Title last week, Lynch wouldn't have been reinstated in WWE this week, which would not have made helped in making the attack this week possible.
#2 Build a match between Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch for Fastlane
Another reason for Ronda Rousey returning and attacking Becky Lynch was to build a match between Charlotte Flair and The Man for Fastlane. If Lynch wins, she will be added to the Raw Women's Title match at WrestleMania 35.
Originally, Stephanie McMahon announced that the reinstated Lynch will face Flair for the vacant Raw Women's Title which was dropped by Rousey last week. But Rousey returned in the closing segment of Raw to claim her title back from Stephanie.
This changed the match between Flair and Lynch from being for vacant Raw Women's Championship to be a chance for Lynch to get back her WrestleMania title shot, she never lost in the first place.
WWE smartly build towards this match without damaging any of the women's characters, as all of the women still look strong heading into WrestleMania 35. At one point, it didn't seem like WWE was going to make this contest for Fastlane, but they surprised us by making it.
#1 Finally make the huge Triple Threat match for WrestleMania 35
Now this storyline between Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair, and Becky Lynch is making sense. A few weeks back many fans were figuring out how WWE will add Lynch in the match between Flair and Rousey to make it the rumored triple threat for WrestleMania 35.
But now Flair facing Lynch at Fastlane with the stipulation; if Lynch wins, she gets added back in the Raw Women's Title Match for the show of shows. The current storyline between the trio perfectly seems to be on the track.
WWE won't let Lynch beat Flair clean at Fastlane as it would make her look weak. So there can be interference from the heel Rousey who can possibly attack both the women causing a double disqualification or both can fight outside until the match ends in double count-out, both of this instances would lead the WrestleMania match becoming a triple threat.
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