7 mistakes WWE made on Raw this week

This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw was supposed to bring back credibility to the WWE’s flagship show, but WWE instead put out the same old storylines that fans had to endure last week.

But it was not all doom and gloom as specific moments from the Raw broadcast made for a good highlight reel, but once again Raw was littered with so many booking errors it would be surprising at this point to even expect anything good from WWE.

From giving us the same open forum segment from last week to once again dropping the ball with the Ambrose and Rollins feud, this truly could be the worst year in WWE programming, and WWE has no one but themselves to blame.

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#1 The open forum returns

For the love of everything good, why did WWE bring this segment back?

The open forum segment is a concept that just does not work at all, as the questions from the so-called members of the WWE Universe are just crowd plants WWE conveniently placed in the audience.

So how can we as fans buy the legitimacy of this segment when we know it achieves nothing. And while some may say that it accomplished the task of introducing the world to the fact that WWE is willing to bring tag team champions to the women’s division, but we already knew that thanks to the hints that Stephanie McMahon has dropped over the last year or so. This segment was once again pointless.

The real point of this segment was to only serve as a set up for a tag team match, and that is classic WWE booking for you folks.

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#2 Lucha House Party rules

Deja Vu

The Lucha House Party is a faction that is exciting to watch, but as a long-term tag team on Raw, nobody really sees them as prime players in the tag team division and that is due to the fact that we all know that WWE doesn’t even see them as prime players. So it’s a mystery how Kalisto Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado are consistently beating the once-promising Revival.

The Revival is WWE’s best tag team from a wrestling and character perspective, and it is truly shocking that they are being jobbed out in this manner. There will be a day when the creative team needs The Revival to fill a gap in the tag team division, but it would be pointless by then, as their credibility is down in the dumps.

#3 McIntyre losing to Ziggler

It might have not been a clean victory, but its still counts in the history books.

Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler are two of the most talented Superstars on Monday Night Raw as they are gifted in the wrestling and character department, and truth be told WWE actually got them off to a good start as a tag team.

But as time went on it seems as if the company has lost interest in their alliance. On Raw this week, McIntyre ran down his former partner, and this was the right decision on WWE's part, as McIntyre needs to branch off on his own and Ziggler's only job was to make sure that happened.

So to settle their scores, Baron Corbin booked these two in a match with each other and, Ziggler beat McIntyre to hand him his first loss on main roster after his return to the WWE.

Although it wasn’t a clean victory as Finn Balor got involved, it doesn't really matter - Ziggler is the first man to beat McIntyre on the main roster after his return. This was a mistake as WWE disregarded their hard work of building McIntyre up as a beast only to sacrifice him for a cheap pop for a now babyface Ziggler.

#4 Bobby Lashley

WWE took Bobby back to square one this week.

Bobby Lashley is one of the most dominant forces on the red brand, as his strength, speed, and physique make him a standout on Raw. Since his return, he has been paired with Lio Rush has got some of his lost momenta back, but his credibility has not skyrocketed as yet.

WWE needed to present Lashley as an unstoppable force of nature, a man that can’t be rivalled in the ring and a man that is all what Lio Rush proclaims him to be. So what does WWE do with Lashley this week on Raw to achieve that? They have him come out to interrupt Elias, and instead of laying down a verbal 'SmackDown' on his TLC opponent, Lashley showed Elias his so-called favourite pose which was Lashley slapping his ass while Elias watched in disgust.

This is not good booking from WWE as we needed to see more of Lashley bulldozing opponents but had to settle for him acting like a fool.

#5 The lost credibility of the tag team division

How long will this programme carry on?

The Raw Tag Team Division is one of the worst parts of Raw every single week, and that is not the fault of the superstars as they are proven talents, but the writing from the creative team is lazy that it's getting tiring to even complain. What was scheduled to be a one on one match with Drake Maverick and Bobby Roode was soon turned into a three on two handicap match by GM Baron Corbin.

Why do we have to see these two teams wrestling each other every single week? Fans have already had to witness the downfall of Bobby Roode as a credible competitor but now WWE is forcing fans to witness the fall of The Authors of Pain, while Akam and Rezar are dominant every week, their lack of creative narratives and contenders for their titles has made them feel less special than they were in NXT. Moreover, having Maverick as a manager does not make matters better.

#6 Rhyno and Slater's pointless match

A match that came out of nowhere.

Heath Slater and Rhyno are still employees of WWE, in case some of you might have forgotten!

WWE finally remembered that Rhyno and Slater could be a part of their plans this week on Raw and booked them to be a part of Baron Corbin punching bag list as he forced both of these men to battle each other, with the loser fired from RAW. Slater beat Rhyno in quick time, and it seems as if this might have been Rhyno's last match in a WWE ring as it seems the master of the gore has retired from wrestling.

The fact that WWE gave him such a terrible send-off is just astounding as this unnecessary match was the swan-song for a legend of the business. If WWE wanted more heat on Corbin, they could have at least booked this in a better fashion.

#7 Ambrose's heel character

Ambroise is not the heel we envisioned.

Dean Ambrose is a special character in WWE’s bland world as he has been a wrestler that has stood out when The Sheild first broke up, as fans were invested in his hatred for Seth Rollins.

But now that their roles have been reversed and Ambrose is the heel and Rollins the babyface, fans expected a different narrative from WWE. But, WWE did not deliver that as this feud feels a bit underwhelming, which started with the writing of Ambrose's character.

Ambrose needed to be a man driven by revenge and hatred but WWE has made him into a joke of a heel that insults the audience to get cheap heat. That isn’t what fans had envisioned when they thought of him as a heel.

It’s sad to see them waste one of the best heel turns of all time with generic material.