3 Things We Hated & 3 Things We Loved

It hasn’t been too terribly long since we’ve seen IYO SKY on WWE TV, and she and Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan went to war at SummerSlam, but it still felt good to have her back. SKY was revealed as Sol Ruca’s mystery tag team partner against Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez, and the pair made for a really fun team.

While I’m sure many fans thought Ruca was getting a big surprise as a partner, a “WWE NXT” call-up or a return, SKY coming back to help get revenge against Judgment Day made sense (though Danhausen did offer up his help, for a discount, to Ruca backstage, in a short segment that made perfect, quick, but cute, use of the “Very Nice, Very Evil” one tonight). While a surprise would have been cool, it was nice to see SKY doing something fun like this, and not focused on the Women’s World Championship. While I love her in the chase, and as champion herself, of course, it’s nice to give some other parts of the women’s division some more depth on the show.

The match was slightly all over the place at points, but I still thought it was fun, and the women thankfully got a good amount of time. I shouldn’t be commending WWE for having a women’s match on the show, but with Becky Lynch and Stephanie Vaquer’s promo segment, complete with Morgan attack, earlier in the night, you can never be too sure at this point if other women are also going to get time.

If reports that some in WWE aren’t thrilled with Ruca’s work on the main roster are true, I hope her work tonight with SKY proved them wrong. She didn’t look bad at any point, and she had a beautiful counter to the Pop Rox and landed a really solid Sol Snatcher right after.

As I was watching this match, I also realized that I want to see the Women’s Tag Team Championships appear on “Raw” more often, or at all, really. Perez and Rodriguez work so well together, they should have another shot at them at some point, after some wins. I think SKY and Ruca could work together for a few weeks to challenge for them, as well. Pair the babyfaces together for a bit to help Ruca work on her in-ring if there are really some backstage who are worried about it.

“Raw” hasn’t exactly been off to the hottest restart since SummerSlam, but this match was an easy watch, and SKY being back can only mean good things.

Written by Daisy Ruth