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This week's RAW following WWE Super Showdown was a brilliant show, to say the least. The episode started with Drew McIntyre destroying Brock Lesnar, before The Street Profits became the new RAW Tag Team Champions as they got the better of Seth Rollins and Buddy Murphy.
Then, Riddick Moss defeated Ricochet, while Aleister Black faced all three members of The OC. The Dutch Destroyer lost to AJ Styles but he picked up victories over Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson.
Liv Morgan beat Ruby Riott before Erick Rowan revealed to No Way Jose what was inside the cage. Shayna Baszler defeated Kairi Sane comprehensively, while Humberto Carrillo & Rey Mysterio got the victory over Angel Garza & Andrade.
The main event saw Beth Phoenix slap Randy Orton before The Viper hit an RKO on Edge's wife to close the show. Here, we are going to suggest the five things WWE could have done differently on this week's episode of the Red brand.
#5 Dominant Shayna Baszler
Asuka was scheduled to face Shayna Baszler this week, but due to an injury to the former, she was replaced by her partner Kairi Sane. Little did that matter for the former NXT Women's Champion as she annihilated Sane in a great match.
The problem wasn't Baszler's win, it was what she did to Sane after the match. The Queen of Spades destroyed Sane post-match, leaving her knocked out, which is something that could have been avoided. Instead, it would have been better to see Baszler get a hard-fought victory and walk away. At this moment in time, WWE is just giving away the result of the No.1 contenders match at Elimination Chamber by having Baszler dominate the RAW Women's roster.
#4 Erick Rowan's booking
A few weeks ago when Erick Rowan was picking up wins one after the other, WWE, for some reason, didn't want to reveal what was inside the cage, even though it was the best time to do so as he was riding high on momentum.
But, instead, this week - after Rowan lost to R-Truth at WWE Super ShowDown - he revealed what was inside the cage which turned out to be a big spider. Quite expectedly, the crowd didn't react well to the unveiling of The Big Red's monster and that is down to the poor booking of Rowan over the past few weeks. This unveiling could have been easily done after letting Rowan regain some of his lost momentum.
#3 Andrade pinned again
I am not a fan of WWE pinning their current title holders randomly.
Andrade, the current United States Champion, has had a dreaded return to the squared circle after his suspension as he has now been pinned twice on consecutive shows.
After suffering a damning loss to R-Truth at WWE Super ShowDown, Humberto Carrillo, this week on RAW, got one over Andrade, which signals towards a push for Carrillo.
But instead of pinning Andrade, WWE could have easily had Carillo or Rey Mysterio pin Angel Garza as that would have been an ideal scenario of not having your United States Champion pinned twice in a week.
#2 Ricochet's huge loss
The WWE 24/7 Champion, Riddick Moss, faced Ricochet for his title on this week's RAW and quite surprisingly, Moss retained against The One and Only.
This loss clearly suggests Ricochet's downfall from being a United States Champion not so long ago to not being good enough to even hold the 24/7 Championship.
This shouldn't have happened on this week's RAW, especially after Ricochet lost very quickly to Brock Lesnar at WWE Super ShowDown. WWE should have tried to build Ricochet up once again.
#1 Aleister Black vs The OC
The reason why Randy Orton's feud with Edge is the best thing about Monday night RAW is that we aren't seeing anything repetitive. There's always something new with The Viper every week.
But, unfortunately, the same cannot be said about Aleister Black's feud with The OC as we are seeing repetitive things every week. Black was scheduled to face AJ Styles this week in a dream match, but before that, Black signed a contract of facing all three members of The OC.
As expected, he defeated both Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, but lost to Styles. I was looking forward to this dream match, but after the dust settled, all it felt like was filler.
Instead of this, the WWE Universe would have loved to see a short and sweet match between The Phenomenal One and Black and not the latter facing every single member of The OC.
These two are scheduled to fight in a No Disqualification match at this Sunday's Elimination Chamber PPV.
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