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This week's episode of Raw broke the chain of noteworthy episodes from the red brand this month with WWE continuing with their path of questionable booking decisions and yet again a randomly thrown together tag team will be challenging for the Raw Tag Team Championships.
Once again, the King of the Ring matches were the highlights of the show and the "Wild Card Rule" was in effect once more, resulting in another meaningless match. Two new championship matches were confirmed for the upcoming Clash of Champions PPV last night.
Plenty of things went down on the red brand this week. Let's do a recap and go over the five points worth noting for last night's episode of Monday Night Raw.
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#5 The team of Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler are the favorites to win the Raw Team Team Championships
WWE's booking decisions don't make sense sometimes. Last week on Raw, Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman, who have never teamed up before as a tag team, suddenly challenged The OC for the Raw Tag Team Championships and ended the night by winning the titles but on this week's Raw, eight tag teams (including another thrown together team of Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler), had to earn the right to challenge Strowman and Rollins for the same tag titles that they, themselves, didn't earn at all.
WWE has a lot of tag teams on the roster that aren't being used properly or at all, such as The Authors of Pain, who were last seen at WWE Super ShowDown. So why did the company put together two random Superstars and handed them a shot at the titles? No one has the answer to that. Roode and Ziggler, who teamed up for the first time, will collide with Rollins and Strowman at Clash of Champions.
Since Rollins and Strowman will be doing double duty, WWE could possibly make their jobs easier by having them lose the tag titles and if the two Superstars continue feuding after the PPV, they can't carry on holding the Raw Tag Team Championships. Why? Because it just doesn't make sense.
#4 Sasha Banks addresses the rumors of her absence in a shoot-style promo
If you didn't believe anything could happen on Monday Night Raw, now you do. "The Legit Boss" Sasha Banks kicked-off Monday Night Raw. She started the show by delivering a promo where she praised herself and claimed to be the backbone of the women's division. Her promo also included some jealousy towards Becky Lynch and she addressed the rumors of her frustrations with WWE in the shoot-style promo.
The Boss and The Man Becky Lynch will collide at Clash of Champions for the Raw Women's Championship and the best thing WWE could do is to book her to win the title. This way, people can take her seriously and she could finally get a proper run with the Raw Women's Championship.
Becky Lynch's title reign is becoming stale and her second reign as Raw Women's Champion is overdue. If Sasha loses at the PPV, what will happen next? What will happen to her after that? Who will step up to challenge Lynch next? Becky is running out of opponents, but if Sasha wins, the two could go on to have a midterm feud for the title.
#3 AJ Styles could be involved in the Clash of Champions main event
The main event of Raw ended in a DQ as The Monster Among Men was disqualified for attacking AJ Styles with a chair. Styles doesn't have any challenger for the US Championship at the moment and with the way things ended on the red brand, Styles could possibly be involved in the main event of Clash of Champions for the Universal Championship.
Strowman uttered the words "winner takes all" during his backstage promo and that could be a hint that there will be a triple threat match for both the Universal and United States Championships. Since Gallows and Anderson won't be involved in anything special that night, they could possibly interfere in the match and assist Styles, since there are no DQs in a triple threat match. Either that or Styles could defend his US title against Strowman.
#2 Drew Mcintyre takes the fall once again
WWE just can't seem to get it right with Drew McIntyre. The Scottish Psychopath has been losing a lot of his matches this year and his recent losses were against smaller guys. McIntyre has the word 'star' written all over him but WWE's recent bookings have ruined him. He lost to former 205 Live Superstar Cedric Alexander on Raw three weeks ago and this week he was pinned by Ricochet.
This does not make McIntyre look good at all. He was eliminated in the first round of the King of the Ring tournament when he should've made it to the finals at least. When WWE decides to finally give him a shot at the Universal Championship, who will take him as a legitimate threat when a former Cruiserweight Champion pinned him? The Scottish Psychopath has potential and WWE should use it to make him the star that he should be.
#1 The top champions were not present on the show
The two top champions on Raw, Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch, were not present at all on this week's Raw. According to Raj Giri of WrestlingInc, the couple is still on vacation and this past week, they got engaged to be married while they were on their vacation.
Rollins and Strowman had a backstage segment last night where The Beastslayer accepted Strowman's challenge for the Universal Championship, but, according to the said report, the backstage segment was filmed last week and put into this week's show.
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