WWE Extreme Rules: 5 biggest mistakes WWE made at the pay-per-view

#1 The (Un)Expected Cash-In

Brock Lesnar became a three-time Universal Champion

Nothing speaks louder in the world of entertainment than money. This was proven yet again as Brock Lesnar showed up once again for merely 15 seconds and took home the biggest prize in WWE today.

Was it Vince McMahon’s way of giving Lesnar a birthday gift? Whatever it may be, it made little to no sense on a night when Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch were giving Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans their last shot at Raw’s biggest championships.

For months we’ve seen Rollins and Corbin go at each other, and just when we thought Crobin was finally out of the picture and we’d see other heels compete with Rollins in the coming weeks for the Universal Championship, the creatives decided to take it away from him.

What was the point of making clear that it was Baron Corbin’s last chance at the championship that Rollins held after the two had a number of matches when Rollins was going to lose the championship to Lesnar?