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Extreme Rules is next weekend and the card is finally taking shape with a number of matches now announced for the show on July 15th. These matches continued to build this week, with the main event for the show still under wraps, this would be a perfect time for their top stars to stand out.
The penultimate episode of WWE Raw before the most extreme event of the year was one that didn't disappoint, but whilst the pay-per-view is still more than 13 days away, there are many superstars on the Raw roster who are already looking ahead to the next event which meant that they were unable to cover some of their smaller mistakes on this weeks show.
Here are some of the best botches that you probably missed on this weeks episode of Raw.
#5 The clothesline with no impact
It's easy to imagine that Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre had a sequence worked out for when he made his way to the ring to save Roman Reigns from a two on one beatdown. But when the two men actually collided in the ring on Raw, it seemed as though they got in each other's way and Rollins ended up throwing the worst clothesline at McIntyre before landing a kick and knocking him out of the ring.
Rollins isn't someone who botches in the ring very often, but it was obvious that both men were looking for a move and they cancelled each other out which left a few seconds where both stars paused before they could move on. Rollins was able to cover well but the clothesline had such little impact and the fact that McIntyre didn't sell it made it that obvious that something had gone wrong.
#4 Mojo Rawley allows Jose to take a seat
Many fans have questioned why Mojo Rawley isn't used more on Monday Night Raw since he's known to be one of Triple H's favorite stars. This week on Raw he showed the WWE Universe the reason why, when he only had to work a handful of spots against No Way Jose and he managed to mess up driving him into the apron.
Rawley picked Jose up too high and he actually ended up taking a seat on the apron, so he was then forced to jump down, walk forward and take the move again on the right part of his anatomy. Rawley has definitely improved on the mic, but careless mistakes like this are why he isn't higher up the card.
#3 You weren't supposed to kick her Sarah!
Ruby Riott was injured at a live event this past weekend which left The Riott Squad alone on Raw, but Sarah Logan was still on hand to accompany Liv Morgan to the ring for her match against Ember Moon. Morgan put on a fantastic show before she was defeated by The Eclipse and Logan then crawled into the ring to back up her best friend.
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It's become the usual thing to try to attack the face when they get into the ring, but the face usually escapes. Moon wasn't fast enough this week on Raw since Logan actually kicked her on the way out of the ring and knocked her own.
Moon was able to recover and then went for Logan, but it did seem as an interaction between Logan and Moon wasn't actually supposed to happen.
#2 Technical difficulties
Monday Night Raw is streamed live which means there is always room for error and sometimes these errors are not exclusive to the superstars who appear on the show. This week the WWE technical team had a number of botches of their own when they started off by turning The Riott Squad's music off too soon so the two women were forced to finish their entrance in silence.
Raw then came back from an ad break a while later and the technical team wasn't ready since there was a delay in transmission and when the show did finally come back on air it was a black screen followed by a glitch between the highlights from Roman Reigns' tag match and Kurt Angle backstage.
#1 Was Alexa late or did Nia forget?
Nia Jax took on Mickie James this week just moments after she announced that she would be part of the first ever Women's Extreme Rules match at the event of the same name next weekend.
Jax has been the focus of a lot of negativity over the past few months when it comes to her in-ring ability and she did herself no favors this week when the end of her match with James seemingly all went wrong. Jax hit a sit out powerbomb before she went for the pin, but Alexa jumped up on the apron and The Irresistible force was happy to ignore her until the referee went over and Jax realized that there was a spot that she was part of.
Jax then got up and was able to wander over to the ropes before she then hit the Samoan Drop on Mickie for the win anyway. Bliss wouldn't have gotten in the ring in time to break up the count, so the referee could easily have counted the pin and ignored Bliss, but he didn't so either Bliss was late or Jax forgot her spot.
