5 things WWE got right on the RAW after Elimination Chamber

After delivering one of the best events of the year in the form of Elimination Chamber, the Superstars of WWE were back in action this week starting with Monday Night RAW next night.

United States Champion Andrade and RAW Tag Team Champions The Street Profits managed to retain their titles at the event, while Shayna Baszler ran through five other women with ease to become Becky Lynch’s WrestleMania opponent.

This week on RAW, the company continued to build up the future WWE Championship contender Drew McIntyre along with the rising Aleister Black. Apart from that, the women got a lot of screentime this week, while the return of Edge made everyone’s heart skip a beat.

The night ended with a huge match that has laid down some potential future challenges for the babyfaces of the brand.

In this article, we will look at the 5 things that the company got right on the night after Elimination Chamber.

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#5 The Man with the spider cage

Erick Rowan battled his biggest opponent on RAW as he took on Drew McIntyre. He came out with his cage, as usual, but McIntyre showed some unusual interest in it.

Rowan wasn’t too happy and fell for McIntyre’s trick as he took a big boot to the face to start the match. The two men battled around the floor and The Scottish Psychopath delivered an impressive overhead suplex to Big Red.

McIntyre then crossed all boundaries as he took the cage containing Rowan’s spider and smashed it with the steel steps. Rowan was furious but couldn’t make the Royal Rumble winner pay as The Scottish Psychopath hit the Future Shock DDT on him followed by the Claymore for the victory.

It’s sad to see that McIntyre doesn’t have a big feud going on before his big match at WrestleMania against WWE Champion Brock Lesnar, but it’s always good to see a big guy boss around another big guy rather than a smaller Superstar.

McIntyre looked as dominant and confident as ever, and this will help him carry the momentum into WrestleMania 36.

#4 WrestleMania with AJ Styles

Fans can’t have a WrestleMania without The Undertaker appearing at the show. Over the past few years, AJ Styles has become as big as anyone else in the company, and fans can’t go without seeing Styles appear at the Show of Shows either.

While Styles was without a rivalry for WrestleMania after the injury he sustained during the Royal Rumble match, rumors started to hype up the direction WWE was planning to take for The Phenomenal One.

This week on RAW, the rumors were confirmed as Styles came out with Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson to run his heelish mouth once again. He showed the WWE Universe a replay of The Deadman’s appearance at Elimination Chamber and then talked about how it looked like Roman Reigns had retired The Deadman a few years ago.

Styles then got extremely personal, and challenged The Undertaker to a match at WrestleMania, making things official.

The Phenomenal One is great at building feuds, but the crowd wasn’t behind him in this one, which made things a little more difficult for the former WWE Champion. While The Undertaker showing up to simply accept the challenge and then disappearing would have done much more than the contract signing segment scheduled for next week, it will help the company generate more viewership nonetheless.

#3 The women’s Championship builds

Becky Lynch is never afraid to kick off WWE’s flagship show, and she did just that once again this week. She showed the WWE Universe what Shayna Baszler did to the other five women in the Elimination Chamber match and put her over before bringing her down once again.

While we were all prepared to watch Baszler appear out of nowhere and attack The Man, the segment went surprisingly smoothly and allowed Lynch to once again put her competition over before bringing her down.

Next up was Charlotte Flair who opted to do something different, but she was interrupted by NXT Women’s Champion, Rhea Ripley. The two got into a war of words before Ripley delivered a big right hand to The Queen before making her exit.

Both segments did equally well to build towards the matches that will take place at WrestleMania in the simplest way possible. Baszler will be looking to send another message to Lynch before the biggest match of her entire career, while Flair will look to head to NXT where she will exact revenge on Ripley once again.

#2 The Monday night main event

The main event of the night was made official earlier during the show when Seth Rollins asked Aleister Black to join his faction. Black turned down the offer, and this match was set to end the show.

Buddy Murphy watched from ringside as his former rival and current leader looked to score one over Black in this huge matchup. However, he ended up causing a disqualification by interfering in the match. The Dutch Destroyer tried to take both men down but the numbers game got to him as Rollins also called out the Authors of Pain to help them in the beatdown.

The Viking Raiders and The Street Profits ran down to help the babyface, and suddenly we had an eight-man tag team match on our hands without Black being a part of it.

After the usual multi-man tag team action, the heels picked up the victory and Rollins also managed to Stomp Kevin Owens who made his presence felt.

This was an overall decent segment that helped Black get over once again. He truly feels like a star and after a big victory on a pay-per-view against a former WWE Champion with the help of a legend, he was straight away thrown into a match with one of WWE’s biggest Superstars of all time.

While many will complain that Black should have been part of the multi-man tag team match, it was better to keep him out of the losing side as he could prove to be vital for KO and company.

#1 MVP’s sacrifice

After officially hanging up his boots soon after the Royal Rumble, MVP believed he was not done just yet with the ring. He came out to talk about how he wanted to start a stable before Edge showed up and called out Randy Orton.

MVP did not take the interruption too kindly and brought up Beth Pheonix, which triggered Edge to Spear him in half.

Orton then showed up out of nowhere but Edge managed to catch him and delivered an RKO to The Viper. The Rated-R Superstar wasn’t done just yet as he grabbed a couple of steel chairs from ringside, but Orton managed to escape from the ring.

He decided to make an example out of MVP instead and choked him out while staring at his real target before delivering a con-chair-to to WWE’s most valuable athlete.

This segment was booked pretty well and did exactly what it was supposed to as Edge got one over Orton and then managed to send a message to The Viper as he looked on from the ramp. Now it’ll all be up to how these two men rip it up in the ring as WrestleMania 36 approaches.