4 Monday Night RAW heels who should have made better decisions

It is often said that WWE babyfaces make poor choices.

They are easily manipulated by heels, and always betrayed by those that they consider close friends, despite the fact that the entire audience can see said manipulation or betrayal from a mile away.

But what about WWE heels?

They are usually the ones doing the manipulating and betraying, and so are extremely smart. They bend the rules, take every unfair advantage that they can get, and abuse all the power they have.

An excellent example of such a character is The Miz. He is perhaps the most detestable superstar in all of WWE, but constantly gets the better of his opponents and rivals by using his intellect.

Another example is RAW's Commissioner, the Billion Dollar Princess herself, Stephanie McMahon. She is power hungry, unscrupulous, and abuses her authority. She is everything a heel ought to be.

Samoa Joe is currently playing mind-games with AJ Styles on Smackdown Live; invoking Styles’ family in order to throw Styles off his game; as Matt Striker always said, an angry fighter is a sloppy fighter.

However, not all heels are as effective as they might be. This is because, despite their unfair advantages, despite their power, despite their authority, they are not very bright.

WWE babyfaces may make poor choices, but these heels are just as bad, if not worse.

The men on this list would have been far more successful had they just thought about what they were doing. Instead, all of their schemings was for naught.

This is a recent list, so anybody on it has to have proven to be especially incompetent in the very near past.

They include an incompetent General Manager who can’t even cheat properly, a Monster among Men, a prize-fighter who seems to have short-term memory loss, and a tag-team that used to be considered the best on the planet.

Baron Corbin

This guy.

Let it be noted that Baron Corbin is the General Manager of Monday Night Raw, and can do pretty much as he pleases. This somehow makes his decisions even worse.

He booked himself in a no-disqualification, Universal Championship match against Roman Reigns last week, and got Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler, and Drew McIntyre to interfere on his behalf.

So far, so good.

However, it obviously didn't occur to Corbin that Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins would interfere, or he would have banned them from ringside.

Not his best moment.

He also tried to punish Bobby Lashley by placing him in a two on one handicap match against the Ascension, which was a fine idea except for the fact that it was the Ascension.

The Revival

The Revival is not very bright.

First, they lost in slapstick fashion to the B-Team.

The B-Team.

Then, despite the fact that everybody watching Monday Night Raw could see Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre, and Dolph Ziggler conspiring to attack the Revival before their tag-team championship match, The Revival allowed themselves to be attacked before their tag-team championship match.

Sigh.

Kevin Owens

What would you do if you had been terrorized by a Monster among Men for months on end?

This individual has thrown you off a twenty-foot structure onto the announce table. He did so, knowing fully well that he would lose the match as a result; he wanted to hurt you so bad that he didn't care if he had to lose to do so. This individual has constantly victimized you. He has locked you in a portable toilet and thrown it off a stage. He has flipped over your rental car. He has mercilessly stalked and attacked you, for no other reason than the pleasure of beating you up.

What would you do?

I imagine that most of us would run away.

Or at the very least, refuse to help this individual at all.

Not Kevin Owens.

For some reason best known to himself, Owens has taken it upon himself to assist Braun Strowman, his tormentor, by joining every heel in the locker room in beating up the Shield.

Ugh.

Braun Strowman

Braun Strowman wasted his Money in the Bank contract.

There is no other way to put it.

At first, he had the right idea.

He intended to cash it in at the end of Universal Championship matches. This was a sound strategy; in addition to being a hulking monster, Braun would be fresh, whereas his opponent would be exhausted after a gruelling match. This all but guaranteed Braun the Universal Championship.

Then, he took leave of his senses.

First, he handed his Money in the Bank contract to Baron Corbin, despite knowing that he was going to double-cross Roman Reigns later in the night, by betraying him during their tag-team match against Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre. He knew that he was going to beat down Roman, but didn't think to cash in after.

Then, the next week, he didn't cash in despite the fact that every heel in the locker-room had beaten the Shield to a pulp.

Let this sink in.

He wanted to cash in at the end of championship matches but didn't on two separate occasions when the champion was lying unconscious in front of him.

He finally cashed in inside Hell in a Cell, because he actually believed that the structure would prevent outside interference, despite the fact that every WWE structure designed to prevent outside interference inevitably has outside interference take place.

And would you believe it, Brock Lesnar interfered, costing Braun Strowman his Money in the Bank briefcase.

I can't even.