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Last night's Monday Night RAW boasted the return of many WWE legends, including Torrie Wilson, Molly Holly, I.R.S, Mickie James, Alicia Fox, The Big Show, Hulk Hogan, and Ric Flair.
The show also presented the main event WWE Championship match between Drew McIntyre and Keith Lee, as well as several stars announcing that they would be part of the upcoming Royal Rumble match.
It was an interesting night of entertainment, but throughout the night, it became increasingly clear that this show was another one re-written at the last minute, and several parts made no sense.
RAW contained several interesting botches throughout the night, even though the returning WWE legends were mostly reduced to backstage segments with the roster's new talent.
Here are just five botches and mistakes from last night's first Monday Night RAW episode in 2021.
#5 Molly Holly and I.R.S are not WWE Hall of Famers
Ric Flair didn't have the best return to Monday Night RAW since he cost his daughter Charlotte Flair her tag team match against Peyton Royce and Lacey Evans.
This came after Lacey Evans was part of some uncomfortable attempts at flirting, which didn't seem to go down too well with the WWE Universe watching the show and tweeting along.
The former 16-time World Champion accidentally tripped Charlotte, and The Queen will now be forced to team with Asuka in a Tag Team Championship match against Evans and Royce in the future.
Following the match, Charlotte told her father to stay out of her business, and he was later spotted backstage with fellow WWE legends Molly Holly and I.R.S.
The lower third that came up on the screen when the three stars were seen backstage stated that all three were WWE Hall of Famers, which isn't actually true.
Ric Flair is a two-time WWE Hall of Famer, but I.R.S and Molly Holly have never been given a chance to be added to the Hall of Fame. Unless this is a spoiler for the upcoming year when they could be added to the Hall of Fame for 2021.
#4 The WWE women's tag team match was full of botches
Charlotte and Asuka have been on a mission since winning the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships at TLC back in December and were presented with Lacey Evans and Peyton Royce as challengers last night.
Evans and Royce needed a win over the champions to claim a match for the titles, but it was a very botchy match that included several awkward moments between the four WWE women.
One of the worst looking parts of the match came when Asuka was looking to tag in Charlotte Flair while Royce looked to tag Evans. It appeared as though neither woman knew what their timing was, and they were both in a position where they slowed the entire match down.
Asuka looked over at Royce before she looked back and then finally made the tag to Evans so that the Sassy Southern Belle could then run in the match in time for Asuka to make the tag Charlotte. The whole exchange meant that the match was slowed down ahead of the peak, which ruined the flow overall.
#3 Only one other woman announced for the WWE Women's Royal Rumble match
Charlotte Flair is a former WWE Women's Royal Rumble winner. She came out on top in last year's match and then defeat Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania last April for the NXT Women's Championship.
It came as no surprise that The Queen then announced her participation in this year's WWE Women's Royal Rumble match last, sending a message to the other women who had already been announced for the match.
Charlotte was backstage with Sarah Schrieber, who asked her if she had a message to send to the other women who had already announced their participation in the match. Charlotte declared that she would be part of the 30-woman over-the-top-rope match.
The issue here is that only Nia Jax has announced her place in the women's match at present. It means that Charlotte was literally talking directly to Nia Jax unless Sarah believed that several more women had already announced their place in the match.
#2 WWE Women's Tag Team Champion Charlotte has issues with Natural Selection
Back at WWE TLC in December, Charlotte Flair was why her team came out on top when she delivered Natural Selection to Shayna Baszler to win the Women's Tag Team Championships.
Interestingly, The Queen has favored this move over her Figure 8 in recent weeks since her WWE return, but last night the move seemed to have failed her when she looked to deliver it to Peyton Royce.
Charlotte came over with the flip for the move, but it seemed as though Royce wasn't prepared for it, and the move looked very sloppy. It's hard to blame ring rust since Charlotte has been back in the ring for several weeks now and has performed the move well in the past.
It could have just been the nerves of having her father at ringside or even the fact that these four women don't seem to mesh well together in the ring since this wasn't the only botch of the night.
Either way, it was a low point in the match, and if these women collide once again with the championships on the line, some things will definitely need to change.
#1 Drew McIntyre was unable to deliver his promo to the WWE legends
Drew McIntyre defended his WWE Championship against Keith Lee in the main event of last night's episode of RAW, and all of the legends were on the stage to watch the match.
It was later made clear that these legends were on the stage because McIntyre was supposed to deliver a promo after his match so that Goldberg could come out and set up their match.
The fact that the match between Lee and McIntyre overran meant that Goldberg was sent out as soon as the match came to an end and cut the promo that he was supposed to.
The fact that McIntyre didn't actually insult any of the WWE legends on RAW that night meant that Goldberg's promo made very little sense and RAW then cut off prematurely because the show ran out of time.
It was a bit of a mess at the end of the show as WWE tried to ensure everything important made the cut, but without Drew McIntyre's promo, the whole segment didn't go together well.
