5 Takeaways from this week's WWE Raw (2 July 2018)

Modified Jul 03, 2018 11:06 GMT

Sasha Banks, Bayley and Kevin Owens all featured on Raw

#1 Monday Night Raw needs a major title – and fast

Brock Lesnar's last match was at the Greatest Royal Rumble in April

Remember when Brock Lesnar last held a world title, the WWE Championship, between August 2014 and March 2015? Monday Night Raw was lacking its only major championship but, thanks to rivalries involving Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose and John Cena, the main-event storylines were still interesting enough to fill the months between Lesnar’s rare title defences.

Nowadays, with Universal champion Lesnar gone from television for longer spells than ever before, Raw continues to struggle for meaningful main-event storylines and, while there wasn’t necessarily before, there’s now a huge need for a major title to return to WWE’s flagship show.

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The rivalry between Seth Rollins and Dolph Ziggler over the Intercontinental Championship has been better than expected, but it hasn’t been the featured story on Raw, with the non-title feud between Roman Reigns and Bobby Lashley taking up much of the television time instead.

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Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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