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#2 Follow The Tropes
Vince McMahon's night was not done when he was bombarded by Smackdown's elite, as the number one contender to the Universal Title came out to the ring to ask the boss a question every fan was asking themselves throughout the entirety of that confusing opening segment; 'What in the blue hell is going on here?'
Styles basically had grievances with the fact that McMahon was bringing all of Smackdown's top stars to Raw in a decision that made as much sense as christening the WWE Universe the new authority, but what Styles really had a problem with was the fact that Roman Reigns, who is Seth Rollins best friend was now on the red brand which meant Styles could see himself in a two on one situation.
This good point was interrupted by the Universal Champion himself who wanted to 'break' Styles' face for last week's brawl that saw Rollins get his ass kicked in the centre of the ring. This saw Rollins go on to belittle Styles by rebutting the Phenomenal One's earlier point of being Smackdown's saviour during its rebirth in 2016.
Rollins said the blue brand was perfectly fine before Styles was on it and it is performing on the same level when he left (this is kind of ironic when considering Smackdown hit record low ratings last week). So what did McMahon do with all the heat these two generated in this segment? Well, of course, he booked a tag team match which saw Styles and Rollins take on everyone's favourite random team of Bobby Lashley and Baron Corbin.
Why does WWE always use this booking trope? The trope where we see the fierce rivals reluctantly team up only for one of them to turn on each other in the match and walk away thus leaving the other in a two on one situation.
It's like the creative team thought to themselves it's just two weeks before the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, so it's time to strike another overused booking method off the trope list, and in all honesty, if that is WWE's mentality when booking programmes, then it's a shame. As with the amount of talent on display, it is just shocking to see the creativity missing.
This is a World Title programme, just let that sink in, it's a World Title programme relying on tired booking methods that have been overdone to the point where no good can come from it. Moreover, so many had hopes that this would be the World Title programme that would get the disrespected Universal Title programme off to a better path, but that doesn't seem like the case.
