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We are just two weeks away from the annual Money in the Bank PPV scheduled on May 19th, as WWE will bring to us the latest episode of the longest running TV show in history and it's flagship brand: Monday Night RAW, live from the U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio.
With the reports of the not-so-impressive ratings of RAW and SmackDown, WWE and Vince McMahon have a task in their hand to get back their viewers by delivering a solid show of Monday Night RAW.
There are a lot of repeated mistakes that WWE has continued to do on RAW that is coming back to haunt them in the form of dropping TV ratings, and one of the best ways to deliver a good show is to first understand what all the fans don't want to see and avoid doing it.
In this article, let's take a look at the 4 things Vince McMahon should avoid doing on this week's show to better the product. Feel free to share your thoughts and views about the current WWE programming in the comments section below.
#4 Not start a proper rivalry for the RAW Tag Team Championship
Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder defeated the former RAW Tag Team Champions at WrestleMania 35 to become the new champs. In the process, Hawkins also broke his streak of 269 straight losses in WWE.
But ever since winning the title, their run has been pretty lackluster. They were dominated by the debutants Viking Raiders (previously known many other names) on their first night and got pinned. In a division that all of a sudden is looking very strong with the inclusion of The Usos, The Viking Raiders, and The Club, these two surely are not the proper candidates to be the champs.
Their booking so far hasn't been good, and they don't have proper challengers for their titles, which in turn is hurting the credibility of the championship. WWE should surely avoid booking them in another random segment or match and build towards a serious feud for the RAW Tag Titles.
#3 Women's MITB participants Tag Team match
We saw this trend last week with the men's MITB ladder match participants teaming up in a face vs heel illogical tag team match. WWE is known to book these kinds of matches with no stake at all just to kill some TV time rather than do some actual booking.
I am so sure they would be thinking to do the same kind of match for the women's MITB participants this week as well. While the men's tag match was still okay, but I'm sure the same match from women's won't be something fans would be interested to see. A better option would be to book a fatal 4-way between all of them.
We saw Alexa Bliss take the pin against Naomi last week on RAW due to her shoe. While WWE could certainly build towards that story and book another match between the two, but that would leave Natalya and Dana with nothing left to do on the show.
I'm anyways not a fan of Dana being in this match, and I sure feel like it's just a setup for Sasha Banks to attack her and replace in the match.
#2 Teaming up AJ Styles and Seth Rollins in a match
This is one of the most common things in WWE programming and one which makes very less sense to me from a sports perspective. WWE has a habit of teaming up opponents before a huge match between the two, and we know how they end - with one of them hitting the other by accident, and then a brawl starts between the two.
Vince should seriously avoid booking yet another predictable match with teaming Seth Rollins and AJ Styles together against a team right before their massive clash at Money in the Bank. There are a lot of interesting things that can be done to take this feud forward, but not this.
#1 Giving Roman Reigns the center stage on RAW
Roman Reigns recently announced on Twitter that he has some business left on RAW and hence will appear on the red brand this Monday. WWE's official account was quick to react to that and you can watch the tweets below -
This exchange of tweet sure looks like there's some story being built here. Roman Reigns moved to SmackDown as part of the superstar shake-up and starting a major angle with him going against the authority, which has been teased for the past few weeks, won't be a great idea and would spoil the very basic logic of the shake-up.
I know authority vs a babyface storyline has been a tried and tested formula, but it is Reigns we are talking about, and while he may be getting cheers now, he certainly is not a huge fan-favorite. Whatever be the case, if Roman does end up showing up on RAW, it better be a one-off deal.
Where could this whole Roman Reigns storyline be heading? Sound off your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below.
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