5 biggest mistakes WWE has made so far in 2021

By Shiraz Aslam
Modified May 29, 2021 17:09 GMT
Vince McMahon and company have left fans disappointed a few times this year.
Vince McMahon and company have left fans disappointed a few times this year.

#4 WWE's booking of the rivalry between Braun Strowman and Shane McMahon was filled with errors

Braun Strowman versus Shane McMahon was disappointing.
Braun Strowman versus Shane McMahon was disappointing.

Understandably, WWE wanted Braun Strowman to have a marquee match at WrestleMania. After all, The Monster Among Men had defeated Goldberg at WrestleMania 36.

Being relegated to a mediocre rivalry would have been an injustice, so he needed to face a huge star at the event. Shane McMahon was a decent opponent, as the Prodigal Son does have some star power. But the story behind their Steel Cage match at WrestleMania was both faulty and forgettable.

All McMahon had to do to enrage Strowman was to call him "stupid" and annoy him like a playground bully. The former WWE Universal Champion is known to lose his temper, but this recurring angle was just plain childish. But this laughable motivation drove one of WrestleMania's top matches.

Otherwise, the storyline was pretty thin, so it was one of the least anticipated encounters at WrestleMania 37. Elias and Jaxson Ryder did McMahon's bidding by executing a pre-match assault on Strowman and interfering during the bout. But "The Monster Among Men" knocked them both off the cage to remove them from the equation.

The highlight of the match was Strowman throwing his rival off the top of the cage. Though the bout was average, it surpassed its mediocre build-up.

Strowman versus McMahon could have been much more than just a forgettable undercard match. If WWE had built a more engaging story, the program would have been worthy of the WrestleMania stage. Instead, this storyline was consistently a low point of RAW.