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Baron Corbin and Stephanie McMahon came out to celebrate Raw's clean sweep over Smackdown Live at Survivor Series, but Strowman quickly made his way to the ring to interrupt the proceedings and get his hands on The GM. Unfortunately for Corbin, McMahon offered him up on a silver platter to Strowman.
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Not only that, but she also announced that Strowman and Corbin would go one on one at TLC and that if Corbin won he would become the permanent general manager.
If Strowman won, however, McMahon promised The Monster among men a title opportunity against Brock Lesnar at The Royal Rumble
After that was announced, Baron Corbin tried to put Strowman in a two on one handicap match to help weaken his opponent at TLC but was overruled by McMahon, who made it a six-man tag team match.
Corbin later added the stipulation of making it a six-man elimination match, which would come into play later.
With that being said WWE made multiple mistakes during this segment and in the ensuing match that occurred afterwards, which could have drastic effects on the product going forward.
What those consequences, however, remains to be seen and will depend on what the company does from here, but here's everything they got wrong.
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#5 Giving Braun Strowman all those catchphrases
Strowman might not be the greatest talker in WWE history, but he deserved better than the throwaway lines he was given during the opening segment of RAW.
In fact, between 'Get These Hands' and explaining what TLC meant, there was absolutely no substance to Strowman's promo and it showed.
Beyond that, the audience has heard those same lines so many times that it doesn't receive the same pop it used to.
Sure, 'Get These Hands' was the exception to that, but the rest of the lines sound like they are coming right from the desk of The WWE creative team.
If nothing else, that's going to hurt Strowman going forward and his chances of becoming champion.
#4 Constant changes to the match
Believe it or not, this whole thing started off as a two-on-one handicap match that pitted Bobby Lashley and Drew McIntyre against Strowman.
Unfortunately for Corbin, Stephanie McMahon overruled that and made it a six-man tag team match that added Corbin, Finn Balor and Elias to the mix.
In a last-ditch effort to give himself an advantage, Corbin announced that it would be an elimination match, but the move seemed out of nowhere and convoluted.
Beyond that, it made the matches outcome really predictable, which really took away from what WWE could have done with the segment if they didn't make it so transparent.
In the end, Strowman came out looking like a huge babyface and that's probably what the company ultimately wanted, but it came in the form of one of the most ill-booked matches that the company has done in quite a while. Furthermore, it wasn't even very entertaining either.
#3 Eliminating Finn Balor first
Its no secret that WWE has dropped the ball on Finn Balor over the last couple months and that trend continued during the opening match of Monday Night RAW.
In fact, WWE made the unfathomable decision of having Balor eliminated first from the six-man match, which is only going to hurt him moving forward.
With that in mind and Elias seemingly supposed to be lower on the card than Balor, why did they decide to have The former Universal champion take the first fall?
Not only does that kill off even more of his momentum, but it also comes after being eliminated relatively early in Men's Survivor Series match the night before.
In the end, WWE needs to do something with Balor moving forward and at least avenge his loss in some way, shape or form.
Of course, WWE will probably end up trying to do that over the course of the next few weeks, but a fluke roll-up victory is not going to distract from the fact that he loses when it counts.
#2 Ending the match with a disqualification
Was the disqualification really necessary?
Of course, it protects Bruan Strowman, Drew McIntyre, and Bobby Lashley going forward, which is important in the build-up to their feud, but it also seemed like an unsatisfying ending after so much happening.
In fact, it didn't even feel like Strowman got enough of a comeback before being snuffed out with the steel chair.
Again, that was probably WWE's intention here, especially with a month to go leading up to The TLC pay per view, but the situation just didn't seem dire enough for Strowman, which really hurt the babyface appeal Strowman could have received from all of this.
Of course, WWE corrected all that after the match, but it could have been done much better.
Think about it! Why just not have McIntyre, Lashley and Corbin converge on Strowman and get the DQ that way?
At least that would have been a much more threatening situation for The Monster among men and would have helped WWE protect all three top stars for a big match later down the road.
#1 Not having Finn Balor and Elias come to Strowman's aid
Last, but not least, WWE made the absolutely dumbfounding decision of not letting Finn Balor and Elias come to Strowman's aid during the post-match beatdown.
Of course, WWE probably wanted Balor and Elias to sell the effects of the match, but they could have brought them out all bandaged up and it would have told the same story!
It would have also been a very effective way to make Balor and Elias look like huge babyfaces in defeat, which would have helped move their storylines forward as well.
Unfortunately for them, WWE thought Strowman was the only one that should benefit from the beatdown and the other two stars found themselves left out of the mix!
Not only did this make both of them an afterthought during the post-match beatdown, but it also made them look like absolute chumps for not coming to the aid of Strowman when he was getting his ass whipped.
Hopefully WWE corrects this in the future, but for now, it's not a great start for Balor and Elias heading into the next pay per view
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