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This week on WWE television, the creative team has to deal with the fallout from the terrible Crown Jewel event, as fans want answers to questions such as, why did Shane McMahon win the WWE World Cup, why is Braun Strowman's career in the dumps and why is Brock Lesnar the Universal Champion again?
But WWE didn't answer any of those questions this week on Raw, as in classic WWE fashion, they forced fans to forget about what took place at the Crown Jewel event and went full steam ahead with Survivor Series 2018. But Raw was not all that bad, but it could have been better if WWE avoided these mistakes.
#1 Braun Strowman's aura has faded
When it comes to Braun Stromwan one can't help but feel disappointed. From losing to Brock Lesnar to chasing Baron Corbin around Raw in a fairly comedic manner, Strowman should be a feared athlete, not a blundering joke, and that what has happened to his character.
Now, most might be saying that WWE has only one way to get Strowman back on his feet after destroying his credibility at Crown Jewel, but by having him chase Baron Corbin around Raw the entire night is not the best way to do things. Strowman is a monster, and it seems like his credibility, aura has faded with WWE's poor, predictable booking.
#2 Finn "the jobber" Balor
"Finn Balor is a fantastic wrestler", "Finn Balor is a top guy", "Finn Balor should be Universal Champion", then why is Finn Balor losing to Bobby Lashley for the hundredth time in a row, while that number might be exaggerated the facts are not, the truth is that Finn Balor's career is slowly degrading into a hot mess.
And it frustrating that the only thing WWE can do with this promising athlete is to have him come out and a smile every single week while he gets rag dolled by men twice his size, and yeah it makes sense in theory that a man of Balor's size should not beat the likes of Lashley, but this is pro wrestling, the more ridiculous things get, we fans still take everything with a pinch of kayfabe.
But this week WWE proved why Balor being destroyed by Bobby Lashley and a post-match beatdown by Drew McIntyre was there to emphasize the fact that this man's career is in a bad state. While the beatdown from McIntyre might set up a programme between the two, it is hard to see Balor moving past McIntyre at this stage in his white-hot run.
#3 A stagnant women's division
The Raw women's division has been undoubtedly the least interesting part of the entire women's division in WWE, as the creative doesn't seem too engaged in making the superstars of the Raw women's division have anything exciting to do besides take part in a constant stream of multi women matches, or build uninteresting singles fueds.
And while some of you put there might not mind at all, its hard to watch talent like Bayley, Sasha Banka and Ember Moon have no flowing narrative to work with every single week on Raw, as these women have been the reason why women's wrestling has been defined in the new era of WWE.
And while WWE makes plans for the Survivor Series clash, building up the women's tag team division and try and shoehorn a couple of uninteresting stories here and there, they are forgetting that the key to building a great division is to give every single star some sort of space to work their own individual talent, but it seems like that is not case on Raw and it was not the case on the show this week.
#4 Not trying to develop the mid card
The Raw midcard is not the best place one would go if in search of high octane action and spellbinding storytelling, as WWE has assembled a group of wrestlers whose careers have been destroyed by bad booking in some shape or form.
As the likes of Jinder Mahal, Dolph Ziggler, Elias, Finn Balor, and Bobby Lashley are regular features from Raw's midcard division every week, but their fueds and matches just have no reason to exist. As none of these men is striving to prove themselves as the best on the show or even vying for Seth Rollins IC Title.
And while many love the Ambrose-Rollins fued, the IC Title has gone missing, and WWE needs to do something about it, as Rollins IC title run was holding the division together but now that Rollins is once again in his own fued, the IC Title was the glue that held these superstars narratives together is gone as well.
#5 WWE has crippled Raw's main event
The Raw main event scene was left without a champion for a long time during Brock Lesnar's intail reign as the Universal Champion and now that the part-timing beast is the champion again it seems as if WWE doesn't care about the stability of Raw and that is a huge mistake.
We all know how Lesnar's reign affected the main event of Raw in the past, as WWE had no intentions of making the Universal Titel a legitimate championship on Raw. And you what, We could go on all day arguing about how putting the title on Lesnar is a mistake, but to make to save your time, it feels as if Raw will tread a disappointing route without the title on a capable superstar.
