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RAW tonight was slightly better than the weak episode of last week. The show focused on the Beast Brock Lesnar's cash-in on Seth Rollins, which eventually led to a brutal beatdown of the Universal Champion at the hands of the Beast in the Box.
Among some certain positives, there were a lot of mistakes that WWE could have avoided on the show. In this article, let's take a look at the 5 biggest errors that WWE made on tonight's show of Monday Night RAW. Feel free to let me know in the comments section if I missed something.
#5 Where are you, Curt and Zack?
I seriously don't understand how can you not have your champion on the show for almost a month now! Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder are surely no Brock Lesnar in that they'll only appear on special occasions to get everyone talking.
The RAW Tag Team division was in a miserable state before the Superstar Shake-up, but with teams like The Usos, Viking Raiders, and The Club coming to RAW after WrestleMania 35, it looked like the division would get revamped. That hasn't been the case, of course.
With the RAW Tag Team Champions missing for almost a month, someone needs to remind Vince that they also exist and need some TV time.
#4 The United States title being handed over to Joe
The United States Championship had a lot of hype heading into RAW tonight. With Rey Mysterio scheduled to relinquish his title due to an injury, fans were wondering who would be crowned the new champion.
WWE themselves teased an amazing match for the same involving Samoa Joe, Ricochet, and Cesaro. But instead of this, what we witnessed was the title being handed over to the former champion, Samoa Joe. While I liked how Joe attacked Mysterio even after he gave him the title, there could have been a better way of putting back the title on the Samoan Submission Machine.
The fact that the whole roster is running behind R-Truth and his 24/7 Championship, but none of them cared to step up and try to get a shot at the United States Title is a little weird. Other than Ricochet and Cesaro, someone like Robert Roode or even Cedric Alexander could have used this opportunity to get some much-needed TV time and show the WWE Universe their excellence inside the ring.
#3 What happened to the punishment, Stephanie?
Throughout Brock Lesnar's ruthless and brutal attack on The Universal Champion, Seth Rollins on RAW this week, I was waiting to see someone from The Authority to stop Brock from cashing in and announce the punishment that Stephanie was talking about in the video above.
Instead, what we got was Brock weirdly refusing to cash-in on Seth when he was at his vulnerable best. What was the Beast thinking? If any of my readers have any explanation for Lesnar's decision to not cash-in tonight, I would invite them to kindly explain it to me in the comments section.
#2 Cedric Alexander being booked as a lower mid-card wrestler
One of the biggest losses that 205 Live suffered at the Superstar Shake-up was the former Cruiserweight Champion, Cedric Alexander moving up to RAW. Being one of the best cruiserweights in the company, fans were excited to see Cedric wrestle on RAW.
But tonight we saw him join the other lower mid-card wrestlers in their crazy chase of R-Truth to pin him for his 24/7 Championship. It is sad to see a superstar of his caliber has no booking direction on the show.
#1 SmackDown match build-ups happening on RAW
With each passing week, the Wild Card rule is turning out to be the biggest mistake of the company in a long time. While it's fine to have some superstars jump brands occasionally to deal with some important situation, the rule has been badly misused.
I don't get why Roman Reigns and Shane McMahon are dragging their feud on to Monday nights instead of doing it on Tuesdays on SmackDown. Vince needs to understand that having Roman on RAW won't help increase the ratings at all.
I liked the little segment between Triple H and Randy Orton to hype up their match at Super ShowDown later this week. The two veterans did a great job at taking hilarious jabs on each other and keeping the audience interested, at the same time putting each other over as well.
The only problem I have is why was this segment was not done on SmackDown, as Randy is a part of the blue brand. SmackDown could surely have benefited from this segment. Let's just hope Goldberg's appearance tomorrow night leads to an even better segment than this to make up for it.
