WWE's Best and Worst Trends of 2018

Worst: Raw

Raw is a bore.

The pitiful state of Monday Night Raw has finally been noticed by the higher-ups. It's long overdue. After celebrating its 25th anniversary in January, the show would go on to have arguably its worst year ever.

With a weak, injury-riddled cast being needed to fill out three hours, the show was behind the 8-ball from the beginning, but WWE made terrible decisions on top of that to stack the problems to the end of the universe. The tag team division was in a pitiful state and for most of the year, everything in the men's division on the show seemed to centre around getting Roman Reigns over, until his shocking cancer diagnosis left another black hole at the top of the card.

Even the highlights of the show, Seth Rollins and Ronda Rousey, were ill-served. The former lost much of his momentum in another ill-advised Shield reunion, while the latter didn't have ideal opponents to work with to truly cement her reign as a standard-bearer. Good as she is, she's been outshined by Becky, Charlotte, and Asuka on SmackDown.