[6.0] "For the worst match of IYO SKY - it's really not that bad unsurprisingly. There were a few botches, yea. It actually seemed like everybody was taking a day off today, even on the ringside. Everybody was botching here and there, even Kairi botched her attack on Zoey. Nevertheless, even if they botched, they got back up on their feet quickly. Just as Kairi botched the punches, her and IYO did an OMG tag move which is definitely not talked about enough. Sonya wasn't really good too with her literally awkward selling, movement and pretty much everything. When I said that everybody was catching a break that day, I didn't lie for sure. Anyway, it's really not that bad in the end"
[4.0] "This match is currently Io's worst rated singles match on cagematch by far, and though I can see why, I don't think it's the complete stinker that a few comments claim. It was a short match that had some of its runtime buried behind a commercial break and although the pace wasn't brisk, it didn't feel longer than it was. Sonya's movements were quite slow and Io had a couple of unexpected dodgy moments herself, like struggling to get through the ropes when delivering a dropkick to Stark on the outside and a really poor striking sequence. On the flip side, Sonya hit a couple of really nice knees and Io's roll through into a stomp, bullet train, moonsault to the outside and moonsault into the ring all looked great during a nice finishing stretch. Overall I think the current average rating that's hovering around a 4.0 is fair."
[6.0] "I do not understand some of the ratings here, not gonna lie. Sonya isn't elite tier, but she isn't THAT bad, and I liked her more grounded style clashing with Iyo's higher impact and flashy movements. A bit clunky here and there, but this is a perfectly fine match for TV. I'm convinced some wrestlers just get judged harder when they don't work the style that is most popular around here, but as decent as this was, it was a lower-tier Iyo match."
[1.0] "[0.5*] Woof. This match was really, REALLY strange. Like, it does not even seem like the same IYO who faced Utami at Marigold. I know the tones it down in WWE, but she always delivers some weekly bangers like on the KOTR tournament and this match was just completely sloppy and sluggish. Sonya is not that bad too so I dunno what went wrong but this was a disaster. The best part is how short it was, but maybe in a longer match they could have done better. The Main Roster womens division needs improvement."
[4.0] "Unfortunately, I just did not really care about this. I don't know why, but I remember Deville being better in the ring. You'd think that this would be better with a phenomenal talent like SKY being involved. Speaking of which, I'm glad she got the win here and I hope Damage CTRL ends up winning the feud."
[6.0] "Third match in this show where rating is not understandable aside from people just don't caring or hating one thing about it. In this case, Sonya Deville. Yes, she is not that good of a worker, but she is not horrible either, she is just boring and dull, but she can pull a decent performance, and she and Io (maybe without her the match would've been a lot worse) absolutely did here. The 7 minutes felt longer than that and the match was quite tedious, ngl, but I think Io and Kairi managed to give it some cool moments. One thing I concluded from this match and the previous attack segments in the episode is that when a heel vs heel feud occurs, one of them will eventually turn face, and I don't know about the episodes after this one, but Damage CTRL looked pretty babyface to me here, which I don't fully buy tbh. People exaggerate with ratings here, man, for good or for bad (***)"
[2.0] "Sonya Deville might be the only wrestler I have ever watched that brings out the worst in her opponent in every match she is in. It is unbelievable. A 7 minute snoozefest....THAT INCLUDED IYO FUCKING SKY! It seems that this is clearly not ring rust...WWE is trusting her to lead this new badass faction and she can't even have a 7 minute match against arguably the greatest female worker in the world. Something is DEFINITELY wrong with her moveset. [*1/2]"
[5.0] "Sonya Deville and Iyo Skye put on an alright matchup. Kairi being injured but then helped Skye win made no sense but to beat Deville you need to have an answer for Baszler and Starks so guess it makes sense."
[6.0] "I think these two ladies did fine. I actually think Sonya Deville is underated, and of course Iyo Sky is always good. Crowd chanting this is boring was really disrespectful, but par for the course with Baltimore wrestling crowds. I was glad there was a decisive finish."
[1.0] "An absolute dud. Sonya Deville was never a super worker but she has been flat out atrocious since her most recent return - she looks lost all the time and works like she's wrestling underwater. Sky tried here but there was no saving this for either woman. Moving forward, I think they've got to consign Deville to a manager-type role because even with the shallow talent of the WWE women's division, she sticks out like a sore thumb as the worst worker."
[6.0] "I was not feeling Dakota Kai vs. Sonya Deville so I was positively surprised by this match turning into IYO Sky vs. Deville. There was a certain roughness to the match but I did not see any big botches or mistakes because of that. I don't mind a match not being that long if the people involved give it their all and make the best of it and IYO and Sonya did just that for me. Deville really impressed me in pretty much all of her matches since her comeback. A 6 Women Tag (No DQ) should be fun, maybe they even manage to turn this into a Wargames match?"
[3.0] "If you can't have a good match with IYO SKY, who's at the top of her game, there's a problem. Hopefully, it's just ring rust from the injury, and she'll improve her performance later on."
[3.0] "Yikes this match was bad. but imma give Sonya Deville the benefit of the doubt because she just return 2 months ago. the match was slow and bad"
[1.0] "Sonya is a garbage wrestler. You know how insanely bad you have to be to make Iio Sky have a bad match? She was supposed to make Zoey and Shayna look better...and she's kinda achieving that for all the wrong reasons."
[6.0] "I thought this was good but it couldve been a lot better, with someone as good as IYO, any match could be a classic on any given day, but this wasnt as good as I expected, Sonya botched a ton and has clearly forgotten a lot."
[2.0] "Terrible, really terrible. Sonya has managed to give both IYO and Lyra their worst matches in a while, which is concerning, especially with IYO, who always makes her opponents look good. The push for Sonya should end when its embarrassing that even her own teammates surpass her by far"
[5.0] "This was an uneven encounter between Deville and Iyo Sky. Sonya had a rough match. She's quite talented and coming off an injury still, it happens from time to time, but this wasn't her best night. Sky did her best to sell for her and was her usual awesome self on offense. Seeing her and Kairi be crowd-hyping good guys is quite odd after months of villainy. In a good way, though, it feels fresh for the group to have this role on RAW."
[3.0] "Iyo has a lot of talent, but not even her can get a good match out of someone like Deville. I don't understand the point of this "female shield" at all."
[4.0] "Iyo sky has been having consistent great matches with Utami, Lyra, Shayna, Bayley, Natalya, Zelina, Kiana and thats just this year alone. This match was shocking compared to the other matches and its definitely not Iyos fault. That moonsault and insane elbow combo from Iyo and Kairi was great. The issue is that Sonya is just not very good, her mic skills are decent but they should just have Zoey and Shayna do the wrestling. Iyo already has to slow down her pace for the WWE girls but this was just unfortunate."
[2.0] "Absolutely horrific. The fact that Sonya Deville managed to possibly have a bad match with Iyo Sky is crazy. The fact that the crowd chanted 'this is boring' is honestly sad for Iyo Sky. Sonya Deville does not need to keep having matches. Nothing good about the match. 2/10"
[3.0] "Sonya Deville is genuinely awful. She could not keep up with Iyo and it was painfully obvious. Having a bad match with the best wrestler in the world should be impossible but her mobility being similar to Andre the Giant somehow made it happen. I can't remember the last time I got this mad at a TV match because of how clearly below the level of the other wrestler one wrestler was. Either let her ramp up so she can keep pace with actual talented wrestlers or keep her in NXT cause this was flat out embarrassing"
[6.0] "Match was pretty much what I expected. These two havn't worked too much together so it was based off faction vs faction. Would have been cool to see Dakota Kai in action but Iyo did good. Sonya is alright in the ring as well."
"Making Iyo Sky get "This is boring" chants should immediately kill any and all momentum you have going forward. I never found Sonya to be a great wrestler, but this was impressively bad."
[3.0] "This was mediocre. IYO does what she can and has to slow down a lot just for Sonya to keep up, and even then that didn't help much. Sonya was never that good to begin with, and with her returning from injury it's clear she's regressed. IYO and Kairi save this from being a complete mess, their moonsault and Insane Elbow spot from the same turnbuckle was really cool, and the crowd popped when IYO won. 3/10"
[3.0] "Yea, this was a mediocre match unfortunately. It sucks because I STILL really like Sonya Deville, and because Io Shirai is one of the best female wrestlers in the industry. Sonya was sloppy as hell here, and she just didnt have good chemistry with Io here. There was plenty of miscommunication for multiple spots too. The best part of the match was definitely Io Shirai and Kairi Sane both doing their respective dives to the outside. I did not hate this match though. It DID suck for sure, but I have seen worse stinkers before. I am hoping this was just a bad night for Sonya Deville because I always thought she was a solid worker for the most part, and I thought her recent match with Lyra Valkyria was pretty decent (aside from that strange moment of miscommunication when Sonya was in the Gutwrench position). Overall, Io vs Sonya gets a 3 out of 10 here."
[2.0] "This match was incredibly sloppy. Sonya somehow managed to have a bad match with IYO. This is probably the first time an IYO match has gotten this is boring chants. I understand Sonya just got back from injury but she wrestles like someone who just started training at the PC."
[4.0] "Sonya clearly could not wrestle a match against iyo, they started to get "this is boring" chants, sonya wasn't really a good wrestler pre injury and the injury just made her worse."
[5.0] "Sonya Deville isnt good the fact she couldnt do good with Iyo Sky says a lot because Iyo Sky is arguably one of the best womens wrestlers today and can give anybody their best match. Sonya Deville it seems like couldnt keep up with Iyo Sky whatsoever. But that spot with Iyo Sky, and Kairi Sane was pretty sick."
[5.0] "I was really looking forward to possibly the start of Dakota Kai's singles push, and she may be injured again. Kai got taken out before the match, and IYO SKY replaced her to win. Cool that I got to see IYO on TV, but I was ready for Dakota. Hope it's not another long layoff."
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