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The WWE had its go-home episodes of Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live and was hoping to do all it could to create intrigue and anticipation for their next big pay-per-view, Hell in a Cell 2018.
Monday Night Raw ended with Roman Reigns getting the better of Braun Strowman after plunging the giant through the stage. Dolph Ziggler and Seth Rollins also defeated The B Team in the Raw Tag Team Title rematch, to set up the Hell in a Cell match against Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose for the title.
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For the second show in a row SmackDown Live had an interesting main event with Maryse and Brie Bella closing out the show. We also got a great backstage promo from Samoa Joe and the challengers to the New Day's SmackDown Live Tag-Team Titles were revealed.
Before we get into this week's mistakes, here are last week's just so that we can see if the WWE are learning from their errors as we go along! So, here are the five unforgivable mistakes from WWE this week.
#5 Titus Worldwide broke up, right?
Remember when Titus Worldwide ended up costing Dana Brooke a match and then she got angry at them and walked out on them and everyone was really excited to see what happened next with this interesting faction breakup?
I don't because the WWE did it and then seemed to forget about that storyline completely on this week's Raw. We didn't even get a small backstage segment or anything. Is Dana going it alone? Will she manage Apollo Crews as suggested online after all?
I guess we'll have to wait until four Raws from now for answers, that is if the WWE remember they were doing a Titus Worldwide breakup storyline at all. It wouldn't be the first time.
#4 Mid-card titles? Shinsuke Nakamura?
Whilst we're talking about the WWE forgetting things, let's address the shiny elephant in the room. Where are the United States and Intercontinental Titles and where is United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura?
Seth Rollins, the current Intercontinental Champion and Dolph Ziggler the former Intercontinental Champion have been feuding over the title for weeks and are actually wrestling each other at Hell in a Cell 2018, but not for the Intercontinental Title, which has subsequently disappeared with Rollins not even bother to carry it around on Raw.
And Shinsuke Nakamura is the United States Champion but you'd be forgiven for forgetting this because he has yet to do literally anything as the title holder apart from sort-of get involved in the feud between Jeff Hardy and Randy Orton. But not enough to make the Hell in a Cell Match a Triple-Threat match for the title. Nope.
#3 The payoff to the Raw Locker Room for attacking The Shield
The entire heel section of the Raw locker room spontaneously and shockingly attacked the Shield in a move no-one saw coming on the previous week's Monday Night Raw, sparking the WWE Universe to question what would happen next given that we'd never seen the Shield so vulnerable?
How does the WWE pay off their most original and intriguing ending to Monday Night Raw in what feels like an age? By having the Shield appear with axe handles and waste literally every single Superstar that had crossed them the week before and then continue acting like nothing had happened from that point on.
#2 Brie Bella Vs. Maryse as the main event of SmackDown
I'm probably going to catch a lot of flak for this. But I don't think that Maryse and Brie Bella should have main evented SmackDown Live on the go-home show for Hell in a Cell. Hear me out!
I get the Daniel Bryan/Miz feud needs to feel big and important for when we finally get our big payoff between the two, but Maryse hadn't wrestled for several years and Brie is still rusty from her time off. I don't know, I'd just have preferred a bigger moment ending SmackDown like Raw had with Reigns murdering Strowman.
I also still think it's incredible that Maryse gave birth in April of this year and is main eventing a WWE show just months later. The woman deserves a huge amount of respect for that!
#1 Not announcing more matches for Hell in a Cell
Hell in a Cell 2018 is one of WWE's bigger pay-per-views yet it's currently set to have four fewer matches than Extreme Rules earlier this year, with eight matches on the card at the moment.
It's not like they couldn't have added more matches, there are ongoing storylines between Bobby Lashley and Kevin Owens, Baron Corbin and Finn Balor, Naomi & Asuka against the IIconics and The Authors of Pain against anyone smaller than them.
Heck, you could even do something completely insane like put the Cruiserweights on the pay-per-view. How nuts would that be right?
