Becky Lynch beats Doudrop to retain the Raw Women's Championship at the 2022 Royal Rumble.

If the fans haven't made it clear enough that they don't care about this matchup, then I don't know what would.

Doudrop enters this match as the Face, but she's just not built up enough by the Creative to draw the suitable crowd reaction. Instead, the heel of this match, Becky Lynch, gets a much more favorable reaction from the crowd. Doudrop's face mannerisms don't get the appropriate response from the crowd, and the audience just seemed so bored out of the match.

Becky Lynch and Doudrop would trade the advantage in this match, with Becky Lynch being the wily veteran who has all the moves, with Doudrop doing all the counters and the underdog fighting face. Becky does a good job in selling Doudrop as a threat with her great facial reactions. Doudrop also sells Becky's attacks well, but the crowd just isn't taking it.

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Doudrop tries to execute a corner splash at Becky, but the Raw Women's Champion counters by bringing up her knees. The champ executes a Molly-go-round at Doudrop for a two-count. A leg drop from the top rope on a suspended Doudrop gets another two-count. A frustrated Becky tries to execute a Manhandle Slam but gets countered with a Big Ending, leading to a two-count. Doudrop drags Becky to the corner to try another Corner splash, but Becky instead uses the elevation as leverage to finally hit Doudrop with a Manhandle Slam from the middle rope. Becky Lynch covers for the three.

The two's in-ring work is okay, but the lack of crowd reaction really hurt this match. This isn't a dig at Doudrop – rather, WWE really failed to develop this story and character to make the WWE Universe truly care about Doudrop.

This got the right result, but it felt very low stakes compared to the other matches on the card. Doudrop needs to be built up much, much more by the WWE Creative before the crowd could start caring for her and acknowledging her as a legitimate threat.