After Oba Femi destroyed Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 42 and sent him into retirement, one big question fans wanted to know about was how the hell do you follow that up? WWE’s answer: The Oba Femi Open Challenge. At the time, my colleague M. G0mez asked a reasonable question: why should anyone answer it? Why would anyone voluntarily sign up to suffer the same fate that Lesnar did? That huge problem actually came to the forefront on last week’s episode of Raw. Think about it. Not a single wrestler in the back wanted to get in there with Oba Femi. Not even someone like LA Knight, who is completely lost in the shuffle. The megastar is apparently one of many wrestlers who decided they would be better off not being on the Raw broadcast at all rather than going out there and getting annihilated by Femi. The Ruler took matters into his own hands by going backstage and finding his next victims in Los Garza. But that doesn’t seem like a sustainable method for keeping the challenge going.

Paige and Brie Bella defend the WWE women’s tag team championship tonight against Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez. Full-time World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns has something to say after Jacob Fatu refused to acknowledge him last week and then hip checked the entire Bloodline through the timekeeper’s barricade. In the actual tag team division, Brie Bella and Paige will be forced to prove their return from obscurity to win the Women’s Tag Team gold at WWE WrestleMania 42 wasn’t a fluke. Former champs, and former fans, Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez are the challengers. It’s hard to imagine Bella and Paige would drop the straps so soon after winning them. But with Liv Morgan willing to attack on behalf of the challengers, it’s hard to write them off, too.