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WWE puts out a lot of content every week, and while plenty of the company's booking decisions are liked by the fans, some things leave the viewers scratching their heads.
As always, the week started with several bizarre booking decisions on Monday Night RAW.
Jeff Hardy continues to be stuck in a feud with Jackson Ryker, Ricochet still cannot catch a break, and The Miz and John Morrison executed one of the worst comedy sketches in WWE history.
WWE NXT put on a strong and solid show with another bizarre decision regarding the champion, while Friday Night SmackDown failed to book a match with any significance or purpose throughout the entire show.
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Here's a look at five bizarre booking decisions WWE made this week.
#5 WWE books Ricochet to lose his Royal Rumble spot against AJ Styles
Ricochet, one of WWE's most athletically gifted Superstars, has had a torrid time in the company as of late. No matter what he does, he cannot pick up a win.
He was recently stuck feuding the RETRIBUTION, which luckily for him has seemingly ended. However, things have not improved for the "One and Only".
This week on Monday Night RAW, Ricochet faced AJ Styles in a Royal Rumble qualification match. The fact that Ricochet had to fight AJ Styles for a chance to enter the Rumble when everyone else on the roster has to declare is not only a bizarre but harsh inditement of where his career is at this moment in time.
Ricochet is a former United States Champion and played a huge role in last year's Rumble match when he assisted Drew McIntyre in eliminating Brock Lesnar.
With past accolades such as this, Ricochet shouldn't have to compete for a place in the Royal Rumble. He should be able to declare his entry like everyone has thus far.
The match itself was incredible as two of the best in the world put on a brilliant spectacle that finished with one of the best transitions into a Styles Clash ever seen.
Despite the breathtaking performance, Ricochet was again on the wrong side of victory, which has been the story of his WWE career for far too long.
#4 WWE continues to book the Jeff Hardy and Elias feud on Monday Night RAW
WWE has put Jeff Hardy in some very bizarre positions recently. Last summer, he was ridiculed and humiliated by Sheamus for his past alcohol issues. Now he is stuck in a seemingly never-ending feud with Elias and his security guard, Jaxson Ryker.
Jeff Hardy and Elias have been feuding since October last year. All seemed to reach its violent crescendo with the Symphony of Destruction match in November, but two months later, they are still locked in a never-ending rivalry.
This week on WWE RAW, the "Charismatic Enigma" faced Ryker in a match that was just over three minutes and featured interference from Elias that caused the disqualification finish.
Ryker took umbrage to this assistance, and a shoving match ensued between him and the singer. The duo was interrupted by Hardy, who suffered a Spine Buster from Ryker.
The match served no purpose for all involved as no one emerged from it looking any better than they went in. It only existed to continue a feud that ran its course months ago.
#3 WWE NXT booked Finn Balor to team up with Kyle O'Reilly
On this week's WWE NXT, things heated up between NXT Champion Finn Balor and Pete Dunne.
To even the odds against him, the champ declared that he would take out Dunne's running buddies, Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch. However, in order do so, WWE NXT General Manager William Regal stated that Balor must find a tag team partner.
Balor would confront his former challenger and the man who legitimately broke his jaw, Kyle O'Reilly, who agreed to team up with the "Prince" and take on the NXT Tag Team Champions.
Similar to last week's bizarre conclusion when Balor came to rescue O'Reilly from an attack at the hands of Dunne and his crew, this team makes little sense.
The match will no doubt be fantastic as all four competitors are at the top form, but the decision to have Balor and O'Reilly as partners is a confusing one, to say the least.
The partnership has "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" dynamic, but these two fighters beat each other senseless not too long ago. A feeling of respect may have grown between the two, but the relationship based on breaking one another's jawbones adds an illogical element to the angle.
#2 WWE booked 5 matches on SmackDown that held little to no purpose
Friday Night SmackDown is usually the better-booked show of WWE's main roster shows, but for some reason this week they had five matches of very little consequence.
The first match of the night was the Riott Squad challenging the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Asuka and Charlotte Flair. The champions went over dominantly, leaving the Riott Squad back to square one with no momentum from now on.
The second match was Cesaro vs. Dolph Ziggler in an unannounced match. The match was quick and pointless with Cesaro winning easily, which begs why use Ziggler in this role?
Ziggler is one half of that SmackDown Tag Team Champions and should be made to look strong and not job out two weeks after winning the belts with Robert Roode.
Next up, Sasha Banks took on Carmella's sommelier, Reginald. The match had some nice Lucha Libre style wrestling, but once again had no consequence moving the Banks and Carmella feud forward.
The following match saw the Intercontinental Championship on the line between Big E and Apollo Crews. This bout was gearing to be a great match, but Sami Zayn interfered taking out both men at the three-minute mark.
To have championship match cut so short to continue the Big E and Crews feud was bizarre and annoying, and WWE could have achieved the same result in a much better way.
Then Baron Corbin defeated Dominik Mysterio in two and a half minutes in a match that did nothing for either man.
The show's final match was supposed to be WWE official Adam Pearce vs. Paul Heyman, which was a huge swerve and ended in a massive angle involving Roman Reigns and Kevin Owens.
The final angle and the Bayley and Bianca Belair segment were the only good things on the entire show, which is bizarre and confusing as SmackDown is usually the A brand.
#1 WWE booked the "Drew McIntyre" and "Goldberg" segment on Monday Night RAW
WWE is never the best when it attempts comedic segments, but this was just painful to watch and easily one of the worst segments in the company's history.
The trainwreck began when Miz and Morrison declared that their "Dirt Sheet" segment would feature Goldberg. What followed was utter trash that even WWE's biggest fan can't defend.
Gillberg came out Goldberg's theme complete with sparklers and proceeded to mock the former WCW star with his routine of stupid gurns and growls.
If that wasn't bad enough, the WWE Champion's music hit but Drew McIntyre wouldn't appear. Instead of the "Scottish Psychopath", a small shirtless man wearing a kilt entered the ring to the collective groans from the WWE Universe.
The two parodies got in each other's face and cut terrible promos. The segment went purposefully off the rails as Miz and Morrison began to bicker about the segment's awful execution.
That was before stating that neither man would win the championship match at Royal Rumble because the Miz will cash in his Money in the Bank contract during the bout.
Despite the segment being rubbish on purpose it was still woefully bad WWE television and did nothing more than make the champion and challenger look stupid. Simultaneously, the Miz came across as a goofball, who possessed zero threat to McIntyre's title regardless of the MITB briefcase.
