WWE Raw: 3 Segments which should not have happened this week on the Road to WrestleMania (March 25, 2019)

WWE Raw is trying to push as much content in its episodes as possible recently as the build towards WrestleMania 35 continues.

With almost all matches from the flagship brand set, it seems like no further matches will be announced from the red brand.

Keeping that in mind, we are still seeing WWE desperately trying to dish out various segments and matches to further build on the matches which the fans already know are coming. While it is important to do so for the sake of the storyline, it is quite surprising the way they are doing it.

In this article, we will look at the 3 segments from this week’s Raw which should not have happened, or happened differently, on the Road to WrestleMania, and give the reasons why they didn’t make much sense.

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#3 The Extraordinary Man’s Will to Overcome

Finn Balor has repeatedly been built as the underdog by the WWE simply because of his size, similar to what they did with Rey Mysterio a decade or so ago.

While Balor may not be the biggest wrestler, he is surely one of the most skilled and talented wrestlers in WWE and there has not been a single instance when fans have doubted his abilities.

Balor was once again booked in a handicap match against Bobby Lashley and his new partner Jinder Mahal. Booking Balor in handicap matches or under unfavorable stipulations has become WWE’s go-to move for the superstar.

Balor was once again able to overcome the odds in a needless match and segment to further build The Extraordinary Man as he pinned Mahal for the win.

This did nothing more than make Mahal look like an even weaker opponent, make Lashley look worse hiding behind other superstars and ending up on the losing side and make one wonder why Balor lost the Intercontinental Championship in the first place.

A number one contender’s match for the championship between Elias and Balor would have done a better job instead.

#2 The Last Man Standing Match

Dean Ambrose is never one to stay down, and therefore he decided to take on the Scottish Psychopath for the second time in three weeks. However, this time the two men battled in a Last Man Standing Match.

Ambrose is soon going to leave the promotion, and it makes sense that WWE is using him to put McIntyre over. At this stage, however, it seems like McIntyre does not need anyone or anything to put him over as he is extremely over already.

Instead, WWE could focus on one of the NXT imports and give them an edge over Ambrose. Ambrose fighting the man who hurt his Shield brothers but never getting any help from Reigns or Rollins also makes one wonder whether he is just out there on his own.

McIntyre was once again able to wipe out The Lunatic Fringe and stand tall at the end of the night building on his momentum for WrestleMania 35.

Instead, WWE could have given EC3 another chance against Ambrose and ended the night for McIntyre after his attack on Roman Reigns.

#1 The Headliners’ Dominance

Less than two weeks away from WrestleMania, WWE booked a Beat The Clock challenge between the three women who will be headlining WrestleMania 35.

All three women are extremely well built at this point, and really do not need any in-ring action to prove a point to their opponents or the WWE Universe.

However, WWE made the Riott Squad scapegoats once again and made them look like nothing more than jobbers from the independent circuit.

The Riott Squad were once the best villainous heel stable in the women’s division, but are nothing more than a jobber trio since the past few weeks. First, WWE wasted Ruby Riott against Ronda Rousey, and this time they wasted all three members of the team.

In a rivalry as intense as this one, which has a story building for over two months, WWE did not need to throw all six women in a series of haphazard matches to increase the star power on Raw.

Instead, they could have delivered a good message through an intense promo, prompting The Riott Squad to attack the trio and then setting up a six-woman tag team match in which the partners would have fought to get the pin.