4 Biggest mistakes WWE must not make at Extreme Rules

WWE must avoid these blunders at Extreme Rules
WWE must avoid these blunders at Extreme Rules

WWE's next pay-per-view event, Extreme Rules, is only a week away and it's starting to shape up to be a must-watch event. Several matches have been confirmed for the event so far and the legend himself, The Undertaker, will be competing at the event following his underwhelming match against Goldberg at WWE Super ShowDown. The Phenom will team up with his old rival Roman Reigns in a No Holds Barred match against the villainous duo of Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre.

The real-life couple Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins will team up to face their respective foes Lacey Evans and Baron Corbin in an Extreme Rules mixed-gender tag team match, where both their titles will be on the line. Alexa Bliss will once again challenge Bayley for the SmackDown Women's Championship and the Dreadlocked Dynamo Kofi Kingston will defend his WWE Championship against The Destroyer Samoa Joe, just to name a few.

WWE is known for their odd booking decisions which leave fans unhappy, so in order to make Extreme Rules live up to expectations and deliver an interesting show, here are 4 biggest mistakes that WWE must not make at the PPV:


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#4 Alexa Bliss defeating Bayley to win the SD Women's Championship

Little Miss Bliss doesn't need the title
Little Miss Bliss doesn't need the title

Monday Night Raw's Alexa Bliss will once again challenge Bayley for the SmackDown Women's Championship. WWE is making a mistake by giving Alexa another shot at the title when other women on the blue brand deserve it more. Little Miss Bliss is already a 5-time Women's Champion. She was the first person to hold both the Raw and SmackDown Women's Championships on two different occasions.

Other Superstars like Ember Moon, Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose would have benefitted from the title shot and Bliss isn't even a member of the blue brand. Bayley should retain the title at Extreme Rules and she should only drop it to a Superstar on the blue brand.

#3 Samoa Joe losing to Kofi Kingston

The Destroyer must not lose
The Destroyer must not lose

Kofi Kingston shocked the world when he defeated Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35 to win the WWE Championship. It was a great moment for many fans and for Kofi himself. Unfortunately, his run with the WWE Championship hasn't been very exciting lately. Kofi Kingston continued throwing pancakes and twerking in the ring, and that makes it hard for people to take him seriously as WWE Champion.

He was also criticized for his size and he didn't get the "high profile" challengers who would give him the rub he needed. Samoa Joe challenged for the WWE title several times before and he failed to win it at every attempt. Joe hasn't won a single match since WrestleMania 35 and he is a member of the Raw brand but he will, in fact, make a good WWE Champion. Joe is a great heel and he will be a more believable WWE Champion.

Samoa Joe can't afford to keep losing so many matches and so many WWE Championship matches. He already suffered pinfall losses to Rey Mysterio and Ricochet, who were much smaller guys and if he loses to Kofi Kingston, another smaller guy, he will no longer look like the Destroyer he is supposed to be, so WWE must not make the mistake of booking Kofi to cleanly defeat Samoa Joe.

What they could do, is make the match end in a disqualification by having Randy Orton appear and RKO Kofi, setting up a match between the two at SummerSlam for the WWE Championship. That will make things more interesting.

#2 Making the mixed gender tag team match the main event

Nobody is looking forward to this match
Nobody is looking forward to this match

Once again, the most despised Superstars in their respective divisions, Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans, will get another shot at the Universal Championship and Raw Women's Championship, respectively. Fans are tired of seeing Corbin and Evans continually getting title shots after title shots while other deserving Superstars are not being used properly, or at all.

The mixed-gender Winner Takes All match will be under the Extreme Rules match stipulation meaning anything goes. Since Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins are holding Raw's biggest prize in their respective divisions, this match could possibly main event Extreme Rules. The only concern here is that this match is not PPV calibre.

We're getting Rollins and Lynch vs Corbin and Evans at a PPV but Rollins and Lynch vs Andrade and Zelina Vega, which sounds more interesting, will take place on SmackDown Live for free. Other matches like Kofi vs Samoa Joe or Reigns and Undertaker vs Shane and McIntyre should be in the main event of the show.

#1 The Undertaker and Roman Reigns must not defeat Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre

Taker and Reigns must not come out victorious in their match against Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre
Taker and Reigns must not come out victorious in their match against Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre

The Undertaker shockingly returned to Raw 2 weeks ago when he saved Roman Reigns form Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre. The four Superstars are currently scheduled to compete in a tag team No Holds Barred match at Extreme Rules.

At the event, the team of Drew McIntyre and Shane McMahon must come out with the win. The reason for that is Drew McIntyre cannot keep losing all his matches, especially this match which includes The Phenom and Reigns. This will not only be a surprise but it will make McIntyre look good if he pins Reigns or 'Taker 1-2-3 on the mat. Everyone is expecting Reigns and Taker to get the win, but WWE should pull a swerve and make it less predictable by having the Scottish Psychopath get the win for his team instead.

Drew McIntyre was once 'The Chosen One' and he was supposed to be a world champion in his first WWE run but things fell through and he found himself out of the company in 2014. WWE should've corrected their mistake by making McIntyre unstoppable when he returned but instead, he jobbed to Reigns twice, and him losing again won't make things better for him. A loss won't affect Reigns or Taker as they won their matches at Super ShowDown.


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