5 Mistakes WWE Made On Raw This Week (10 June 2019) 

After the Super ShowDown event concluded with The Undertaker and Goldberg almost ending each other's career, we headed to Monday Night Raw for another installment of the flagship show.

This episode of Raw was meant to get fans hyped up for WWE's newest pay-per-view - Stomping Grounds, as the company was hoping to convince fans that the matches that were building to that event are worth their time.

However, the real question everyone had on their minds was whether Raw would finally turn out to be a showcase of brilliant television or an unwelcome episode of last minute writing? Well, the answer to that question is that Raw was none of those things.

The show felt like an episode of WWE Main Event, where nothing really mattered, and there are no stakes in any of the matches. So, let us see where WWE went wrong and how they could have avoided it.

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#1 A Less Than Stellar Opening

Rollins could use another foe.

At this point, even a casual fan can predict how an episode of Raw is going to open. As we will see a Superstar come to down to the ring to cut a promo, but he/she will be interrupted by their rival, and then a match will be set up from this confrontation.

The question here is why does WWE keep on doing something that is driving their viewers away? No one wants to see Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens, Baron Corbin and Sami Zayn argue for ten minutes when a much more important segment could take up that time slot.

But WWE was intent on giving us that segment, as the confrontation between Rollins and his foes was all set up for the main event of the night. WWE should have provided us with something much more related to the events of Super ShowDown, as anything from Lesnar himself appearing to The Undertaker or Goldberg addressing their future in the company would be much more exciting than what we got.

#2 Broken Dreams

From main event act to a mid-card bodyguard.

The story of Drew McIntyre's return to WWE was a hopeful one, as the former 'Chosen One' went to the indie scene and reinvented himself into a one-man wrecking machine. Therefore, McIntyre catching the attention of Triple H and returning to the company via NXT was no surprise. And, only the fans at Full Sail could tell you what a big star McIntyre was in NXT.

However, on the main roster, this man is nothing more than the muscle in every makeshift heel faction. From being a part of Braun Strowman's heel team to running around protecting Baron Corbin, WWE has really wasted a valuable amount of time in making Drew a top tier star.

So, it was no surprise when we saw Drew once being used as Shane McMahon's lackey, as WWE has clearly given more priority to a 47-year-old non-wrestler than a future main event prospect. The only highlight from Shane's celebration on Raw was the intense promo Drew directed at Roman Reigns, as that 2-minute warning to Reigns was better than anything in this segment.

Now, while this might feel like I might be going to hard on a silly heel celebration, it's bookings like this from WWE that has put Raw in a comprising situation, as fans are tired of these types of cut and dry segments that hype up the wrong person.

#3 Another Title Change

WWE needs to be more patient.

The Revival won the Raw Tag Team Titles on the red brand this week, as 'the top guys' took part in a triple threat tag team match against The Usos and Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder. While Dash and Dawson picking up the gold is something that will definitely take the division one step ahead, at the same time, it takes the division one step back.

For almost two years now we have been seeing the Raw Tag Team Titles being thrown around from team to team like a hot potato, and that needs to stop, as the credibility of the belts was diminishing faster than a 24/7 Title match.

The division needed stable champions, and WWE was just not committed to doing that, as Hawkins and Ryder's win at WrestleMania was done for a predictable 'feel good' moment, but WWE could have made them into more than that.

We needed a team that would build the division from the ground up again, and while Hawkins and Ryder would not be on many fans lists to accomplish that feat, there are some fans out there who believe if WWE gave them a chance to succeed they would.

Moreover, there is another reason why handing the titles to another team was a bad idea, as fans have theorised the only reason why WWE handed the belts to The Revival was an incentive to make them re-sign with the company.

So, if Dash and Dawson decide not to do that, then expect them to be jobbed out to the War Raiders or The Usos, as that keeps the cycle of WWE throwing the titles around in motion.

#4 Tag Team Mania

So much tag team wrestling, yet so little advancements in the division.

There was an interesting point brought up by Daniel Bryan on why there has never been a tag team match to main event WrestleMania, as Bryan went on to say that there has been a women's revolution in WWE, but now there needs to be a tag team revolution.

Many agree with what Bryan said about this matter, and I personally could not agree more with the man, as tag team wrestling is possibly at its worst point in WWE. But, there is one thing that many don't realise, and that is the fact that WWE is obsessed with tag-team wrestling.

Every single match you see on an episode of Raw or SmackDown Live is tag team related, from mid-carders taking part in six-man tag team matches to main eventers teaming up to fight their foes in elimination tag team matches. WWE is tag team crazy, and that was apparent on Raw this week.

Almost all the matches and segments on Raw this week was tag team/faction related, and that is just an overload of one thing in a show that should have variety. As we saw the team of Owens, Zayn and Corbin confront Seth Rollins, Lars Sullivan took on The Lucha House Party in a handicap match, and The IIconics were in action against local competitors.

You thought that was a lot of tag team action? WWE had more in store, as we saw the US Title picture pit the heels against the babyfaces in a six-man tag team match, the Raw Tag Team Titles being defended in a triple threat tag team match and Becky Lynch teaming with Nikki Cross to take on Alexa Bliss and her partner Lacey Evans.

I could go on all day pointing out the rest of the instances WWE made faction-tag team wrestling the focal point on this episode, but that would waste time. The point here is that by WWE booking a three-hour episode with very little variety makes you wonder if you should spend three hours watching the same thing with different Superstars.

#5 A Less Than Stellar Way To Close The Show

AJ Styles might be the only man that can save Raw.

If you are wondering why I used the same heading at the start of this article and at the end, well, that is due to one simple reason. WWE started off Raw in the same way they ended it, and that was in a lacklustre manner.

The main event of the night was a match between Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins that was set up at the beginning of the night, but this time there was a twist involved, as Sami Zayn played the 'outside referee'(whatever that means).

In typical fashion, Zayn got involved during the match, as his best friend KO was on the losing end of the bout, but Rollins was ready for Zayn's interference and proceeded to beat the living daylights out of the man, which led to Zayn ending the match as a DQ.

Rollins then continued his ambush on Zayn, and this led to Corbin coming out to the ring to get the upper hand on his Stomping Grounds opponent. Rollins eventually got the upper hand in this fight and sent the heels reeling.

Now, if this type of booking is what makes someone tune into Raw next week, then that is great for them, but for the rest of the WWE Universe who are basically displeased with Raw ending, in the same way, every week, these main events are not going to change.

WWE needs to bring back heat to the product, as everything feels too timid, and I hope that we can see a change next week. And even though most of us are tired of the way WWE books their product, we are all wrestling fans who want to be entertained.