7 Mistakes WWE Made On Raw This Week(29 April 2019)

#4 Champ or Chump

Champions are not on a higher level these days.

Samoa Joe is a wrestler from an era that is slowly ceasing to exist, an era where wrestlers felt a bit more aggressive in the sense that they were all looking to claim the top spot in their respective companies. While many would say that culture still does exist in wrestling today, in WWE it truly does not, as in WWE there aren't levels fans can put the superstars on, and that is a problem.

For example, last year we witnessed the rise and fall of Finn Balor in a span of one week, Balor went from beating AJ Styles at the TLC pay-per-view to jobbing to a worn out Kane the very next night, where is the protection for WWE's top stars in their booking.

This week on Raw we saw WWE fail to give Samoa Joe that same protection when he went one on one with Rey Mysterio. Now losing to Rey is not a bad thing, as the man is a legend of the industry, but in Joe's situation he is the US Champion, and surely that gives him some security right?

Well, it doesn't seem so, and you may have noticed WWE doesn't afford their champions any sort of protective booking, as they usually lose on weekly shows but miraculously retain their titles at pay-per-views. For Joe, this does him no favors, as the US Champion losses the momentum he stocked up over the last few weeks which makes no sense when trying to rank him higher than his opponent.

In WWE there are no levels, there is no way to differentiate between champion and challenger, and in Samoa Joe's case, WWE is trying to convince fans he is an alpha when WWE themselves fail to book him as one. Even though Joe is in the top spot in WWE's mid-card, it doesn't feel that way and that is a mistake on the company's part.

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#5 Going Nowhere Slowly

Get this man in a ring.

Last week on Raw we witnessed a bold decision by WWE, and that was the rebranding of Bobby Roode as Robert Roode. Now, the memes with countless r-rated jokes about Roode's new look was freaking hilarious, but just sit back, think and realize what this truly means for the former NXT Champion.

This is Roode's shot to finally become the cocky, brash, ignorant SOB we all knew and loved from his time down in NXT, but to everyone's surprise on Raw this week, where the hell was the glorious one? WWE missed a massive, no, they missed an absolute colossal chance to get Roode off to a white-hot start.

As just imagine a newly rejuvenated Roode been inserted in the Money in the Bank ladder match or Roode interrupting the tense confrontation between AJ Styles and Seth Rollins, the possibilities were endless.

You probably know by now where there are endless possibilities WWE usually wastes it, and this week on Raw, an opportunity to make Roode's hot gimmick catch alight with the WWE Universe was just lost, as it was thrown in the trash never to be seen again.

But hopefully, WWE can make up for this mistake, as Roode has to be on TV regularly for fans to notice the man as the second coming of Rick Rude.