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Raw and Smackdown Live! both did their go-home shows before Hell in a Cell this week and both lacked any real action to move the needle heading into the event.
On RAW, the entire storyline is revolving around six men. Everything else has been buried and pushed to the backburner and while The Shield vs. Braun and his crew is somewhat entertaining, it has really bogged down the three hours for a few weeks in a row.
Somehow they have this six men tying up all the titles on the show and leaving Kevin Owens, Finn Balor, Contable Corbin, Bobby Lashley, etc. all in the clubhouse with a lack of relevance.
Owens has done a respectable job of trying to make Lashley matter, but if Strowman was going to form a heel stable to counter The Shield, why did they wait until he buried KO to do it?
Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose could defeat Ziggler and McIntyre at Hell in a Cell and put all the main men’s titles in The Shield. That seems the angle the show is going for here and at least would make the entire locker room attacking The Hounds of Justice on a weekly basis make a little more sense.
The one exception to the dullness on Monday nights is the women’s division, where there has been a decent story told on Ronda Rousey’s ribs enough to paint Alexa Bliss at having a chance to regain the Raw Women’s Championship at Hell in a Cell.
It would be really strange to have Rousey drop the title, but at least they have added some intrigue and built a way that the match does not have to be a squash.
Bliss is easy to hate and a strong character. She should help push Rousey even higher with this match and hopefully move right into a storyline that does not need the title to be relevant.
The women on Raw are not the only ones forcing their way into the spotlight.
