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The 2019 WWE SummerSlam weekend is all but wrapped, with NXT Takeover on Saturday, SummerSlam on Sunday, and Monday Night Raw. WWE did a lot of great things over the weekend, as Bray Wyatt's new Fiend character made his debut against Finn Balor and everybody loved it. NXT Takeover allowed Io Shirai and Candice LeRae to have one of the best women's matches in WWE history. The match was in some people's opinion, including mine, better than the main event between Johnny Gargano and Adam Cole which was, of course, also great. Brock Lesnar and Seth Rollins had an awesome match in the main event of SummerSlam. Elsewhere on Raw, Cedric Alexander and Drew McIntyre had a really good match and Sasha Banks made her return to the company for the first time since WrestleMania, turning heel on Natalya. But not everything is perfect in the world, and WWE could have done some things better. These are 3 huge mistakes WWE made over SummerSlam weekend.
#3 The Kabuki Warriors not winning the Women's Tag Team Championships
When it comes to in-ring ability in the women's division most people aren't in the same league as Asuka and Kairi Sane. Some people like Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks are up to par, but most are nowhere near the level of the Kabuki Warriors.
WWE decided last week to finally take the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships off of the IIconics and put them on Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss. Nikki is really good in the ring and Alexa is pretty over with the fans and great on the mic. But the Kabuki Warriors have done nothing since Kairi Sane was called up after WrestleMania, and if WWE doesn't do something with them soon they are going to be forgotten about by most people.
This was the time to do it but WWE chose not to. If they don't pull the trigger with the team soon, it will be a huge mistake by the company.
#2 The Randy Orton vs Kofi Kingston finish
Kofi Kingston and Randy Orton had a WWE Championship match at SummerSlam which was turning into a decent little match, that is until the finish.
Towards the end of the match, Randy Orton found himself on the outside of the ring in front of Kofi's children who were sitting in the front row. For a split second, I thought Randy Orton may RKO Kofi Kingston's children. It was not to be though, probably best considering they are around 5 years old.
No, the finish instead was a double count-out, definitely not the finish you would want in the WWE Championship match at the second biggest show of the year. This was a very similar finish to the WWE Championship match at SummerSlam last year where AJ Styles retained by disqualification after he hit Samoa Joe with a chair. This after Joe was insulting AJ's wife and child.
WWE apparently enjoys doing family-oriented storylines in the summer and they work sometimes, but this was not the night for a double count-out. They could have done many other finishes to set up a rematch and this was one of the worst ones they could have chosen.
#1 Not doing a Matt Riddle vs Goldberg angle
Matt Riddle didn't wrestle on NXT Takeover the night before SummerSlam but he did appear on the show. He brawled with his current rival Killian Dain and they both ended up crashing through some tables.
Goldberg, of course, beat Dolph Ziggler at SummerSlam and "beat" is probably the understatement of the year. He absolutely destroyed poor Dolph.
Matt Riddle has been very critical of Goldberg's work especially after his match with The Undertaker at Super ShowDown. The heat between the two is clearly real and has no storyline involved in it whatsoever. But, WWE could have capitalized on these superstars' very real feelings and made it into one of the hottest storylines of the year.
Riddle wouldn't have to be called up full-time and they don't even have to do a match, but if WWE had shot an angle between the two, it would have been electric.
