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Roxanne Perez showed her loyalty to the Judgment Day by blasting Finn Balor with the ring hammer during his match with JD McDonagh. With a few days to go until the first PLE after WrestleMania, WWE made the next five mistakes.
#5. The ‘challenger has pinned the champion’ trope
WWE and other companies love to set up title matches by having a potential challenger pin the current titleholder. It can be in singles competition or in a tag team contest, like on RAW.
Ethan Page and Rusev beat Je’Von Evans and Intercontinental Champion Penta in tag team action. Instead of having the younger star eat the pin, Page pinned Penta for the victory.
It sets up a title match in the future, but could have been achieved without the champ losing luster. A #1 Contender’s match or triple threat could have produced a challenger without sacrificing a champion.
#4. Nothing for LA Knight from WWE Creative
LA Knight has been primarily an afterthought since WrestleMania 42. His lone contribution last week was a quick backstage interaction with the Usos. The Usos, on the other hand, were all over RAW and SmackDown the last two weeks.
RAW from Omaha came and went without an appearance from The Megastar. Even though it’s hard to book everyone for each episode, WWE just cut several stars in the last two weeks.
It shouldn’t be hard to find something meaningful to do for one of the top fan favorites in the company. Not being involved with Backlash isn’t a valid excuse because half the rosters aren’t featured at the PLE.
#3. More releases and a Joe Hendry encore
Having someone sing a song about a star getting fired is fine – if over 20 WWE stars didn’t get released three days before the song. That’s what happened last week on RAW when Joe Hendry sang a tune hoping Logan Paul would be fired.
WWE didn’t get the memo on how short-sighted that was because they had Hendry sing the same tune yet again before he clashed with Austin Theory.
It happened a few days after even more releases, as Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, JC Mateo, and Tonga Loa were all let go.
Logan Paul even mentioned how he is “unfireable” because he’s too important to TKO. Mentioning TKO in the promo also proves how tone deaf higher ups are after another slew of releases over the weekend.
#2. Playing favorites with new talent from NXT
WWE laid out all the fanfare for Sol Ruca on RAW. She’s a former Women’s North American Champion, but wasn’t the only NXT talent to be promoted to the main roster recently.
Ethan Page and Joe Hendry weren’t afforded the same on RAW. Hendry got a concert, but contract signings are big deals as well. On SmackDown, Ricky Saints and Fatal Influence just showed up and wrestled.
Ruca got an entire in-ring segment at the top of the second hour of the show. It continues the narrative that she gets more spotlight and opportunities than others, as her former friend, Zaria, has mentioned.
If it weren’t true, then the same would happen for other new stars. It also isn’t technically Sol’s fault, but that of those booking it.
If that wasn’t enough, writers had another champion “choose” her without earning a title shot, as Jacy Jayne did in NXT after the Royal Rumble. Becky Lynch interrupted the segment, claiming the time was supposed to be hers.
Pushing new stars is fine, but doing so a little more equally shows that everyone is important for one reason, and not just the flashy, high-flying spot workers.
Some stars should be built up a bit more instead of challenging the two champions of a brand. Jacy may have faced Rhea Ripley, but Fatal Influence is a faction and targeted multiple people.
#1. Refusing to subvert the show structure of RAW
Roman Reigns surprisingly showed up at the beginning of RAW instead of his usual appearance in the last 20 minutes simply for his segment. The Tribal Chief was shown in the parking lot and stormed to the ring as RAW began.
Adam Pearce stopped him before he could make it out to the ring since Jacob Fatu hadn’t arrived. Reigns stopped and looked right at Seth Rollins, who took part in the official opening segment. Maybe he’ll stick around for the whole show if he’s mad.
SmackDown has been hard to watch after WrestleMania, but they at least change up who ends the show each week. Cody Rhodes started it last week and wrestled Ricky Saints halfway through.
Jacob Fatu, who is facing Reigns at Backlash, closed the show. The contract signing makes sense to end RAW, but WWE needs to present other stars and feuds as worthy of the spot. Roman isn’t going to be around forever.
Someone other than a Bloodline member can do that, but writers refuse to stray from the same old template of how RAW is structured.
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