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Last week’s episodes of RAW, NXT, and SmackDown were extremely entertaining, thanks to the creatives of WWE.
RAW kicked off with a great segment involving the WWE Champion Drew McIntyre who fended off an attack from the new heel trio of Andrade, Austin Theory, and Angel Garza. From there onwards, we got three new participants for the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match in the form of Rey Mysterio, Apollo Crews, and Aleister Black.
Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax battled in dominating matches, while McIntyre ended the night with a win over Garza.
NXT took over Wednesday with a show where Finn Balor was missing, but Velveteen Dream teamed up with Keith Lee, and later Dexter Lumis, to take down The Undisputed Era. Jake Atlas, Fantasma, and KUSHIDA were able to emerge victorious in the Interim Cruiserweight Championship tournament during the night.
SmackDown delivered the final blows with a good show on Friday where both the men’s and women’s tag teams got a chance to shine. One new entrant for the men’s and women’s Money in the Bank ladder match was also confirmed by the end of the night.
In this article, we will look at the 5 things that must happen on the three brands to keep the shows exciting this week!
#5 The Viking Raiders challenge The Street Profits
The Viking Raiders are back in action and it seems like the duo is hungrier than ever as they look to regain their spot on the RAW roster.
A couple of weeks ago, the two big men defeated Ricochet and Cedric Alexander in a good match to announce that they were back in contention for the RAW Tag Team Championships.
While The Street Profits are proving to be good Champions, they haven’t come across any real competition yet and WWE needs to put that hurdle in their way to make them come across as a much more dominant team.
Back in NXT, The Viking Raiders were virtually unbeatable and even The Street Profits couldn’t go over them. With that in mind, we must watch the former RAW Tag Team Champions compete in a match this week and win it after dominating their opponents.
After the match, the duo must lay down a challenge to The Street Profits for the RAW Tag Team Championships for Money in the Bank to add another match to the event and make things more exciting for the fans.
#4 Seth Rollins unveils a new alliance
We’ve seen Seth Rollins play the opportunist once again on RAW since his loss to Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 36. The Monday Night Messiah walked out a couple of weeks ago to take advantage after Drew McIntyre’s match against Andrade and delivered a couple of Stomps to the WWE Champion to make a point.
McIntyre laid down the challenge to Rollins soon after to come after his WWE Championship and face him like a man. Rollins accepted the challenge and the two will meet in the ring this week for a contract signing.
Like most other contract signings that go down in WWE, this one too will not go down without any surprises as we can see some attacks or interferences as per usual.
WWE must not back down on tradition and allow Rollins to arrange a sneak attack on McIntyre with the help of Murphy and a couple of new faces from either RAW or NXT to form a new alliance.
Will The Viking Raiders turn heel to join Rollins in his quest to change Monday Night RAW, or will WWE allow someone like Killian Dain to return to the main roster and align with The Messiah?
#3 Damian Priest shoots down Keith Lee
NXT North American Champion Keith Lee helped The Velveteen Dream fend off an attack from The Undisputed Era last week before joining forces with him to take on Roderick Strong and NXT Champion Adam Cole later in the night.
While Lee and Dream were doing a good job at keeping the heels down, Damian Priest appeared to attack Lee with his nightstick and took him out of the match for good.
Priest has been eyeing Lee’s Championship for weeks now and has even gotten a shot at it in a Triple Threat Match involving Dominik Dijakovic. However, that hasn’t satisfied the heel’s hunger who has made his point once again and will get a shot at the title this week.
While The Limitless One has been carrying the weight of the Black & Gold brand in recent months, the company must pull off a swerve this week to mix things up and give the mid-card a good shakeup.
NXT must allow Priest to win the title by using some heelish tactics against Lee this week and shock the entire NXT Universe.
This will allow Lee to get back in the chase again and possibly get more Superstars involved before Lee can reclaim his title while giving Priest a huge push.
#2 Io Shirai interferes in the NXT Women’s Championship match
Mia Yim has been one of NXT’s brightest stars since 2018. Even though she’s had her fair share of mixed bookings, she has tried to grab opportunities with both hands whenever the time has been right.
Yim had a rivalry for the NXT Women’s Championship against Shayna Baszler last year, but she wasn’t as big a star then as she is now.
The Head Baddie in Charge’s value has risen even more as the new NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair has handpicked Yim to be the first challenger to her title.
While we know that NXT won’t let The Queen lose the title so early in her second reign, they should not let The HBIC’s value fall by taking a clean loss.
Instead, they must allow Io Shirai to interfere in the match between Yim and Flair this week and cause some distraction leading to Yim’s loss. This will allow The HBIC to retain her value while giving Shirai the excuse that she wants to face The Queen and no one else for the title.
#1 Dolph Ziggler progresses as the final MITB entrant
Otis and Dolph Ziggler have had a long-running rivalry now, and the two men had a good match at WrestleMania 36 to settle the differences. Otis got the win and the girl at the end of the bout as Mandy Rose is now on Otis’ corner rather than Ziggler’s.
This week, the two men will have to come face to face once again and have a big prize on the line during the match. With five spots in the Money in the Bank ladder match already occupied, the two men will battle for the final spot in the match.
Even though Otis got the win at WrestleMania, WWE must allow Sonya Deville to cause some sort of distraction leading to Otis’ loss in the match. Ziggler is a far more experienced player who has had a lot of experience in the MITB matches and even won the briefcase once.
Ladder matches are always better with an athletic Superstar involved, and Ziggler is the more athletic Superstar out of the two who could make the match at the pay-per-view even better. Apart from that, King Corbin is the only heel in the match currently and WWE needs to add at least one more heel to the match to make things equal.
