Monday Night Raw showed a thing or two to the WWE Universe. It showed them that Roman Reigns is currently being protected from the WWE marks who insist on booing him out of the building ever night on WWE television.
It also showed them that WWE Creative changes the plans right before they go to air at 8:00 p.m. est. However, there has to be something said about this atrocity that is known as WWE Roadblock.
First off, there are less than four weeks until WrestleMania. The biggest event in the WWE’s annual calendar, yet four nights ago just proved to be a go-home show to WWE Roadblock. Clearly, they weren’t focused on making WrestleMania even better.
WWE officials wanted to promote the WWE Network Special, that will most likely remain relevant three days after the event is finished.
It would be okay if that was a glorified house show that didn’t carry storylines on Raw or Smackdown, but that isn’t the case here. WWE made sure to make these storylines “important,” which didn’t help their plans for WrestleMania.
Brock Lesnar is set to face Dean Ambrose at WrestleMania in a street fight. The preparation and promotion took a back seat to WWE Roadblock. Triple H is set to face Roman Reigns for the WWE championship at the Showcase of the Immortals.
Ambrose’ match with HHH is more-important right now, so let’s have the WrestleMania main event take a back seat and feel less-important.
Bray Wyatt is set to face Lesnar at WWE Road Block. On a complete side note, Wyatt will lose to Lesnar, thus crushing his momentum even more. What’s the point for their fight at Roadblock? They never even had a staredown or segment together.
All of this seems thrown together at the last minute to get more WWE Network subscriptions in time for WrestleMania 32.
It’s very unfortunate to those wrestling in the event in Toronto because the primary focus won’t be on WWE Roadblock unless something happens to further a match. This can easily take place in the main event with Triple H and Ambrose.
The WWE Creative team’s intentions with Reigns are clear. They are trying to protect him from getting booed in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and even Brooklyn.
Rumor has it that he was pulled from Raw next week, which leaves two more after that for the no. 1 contender in the main event to promote his match. As it says above, they are in Philadelphia and Brooklyn respectively.
If they want to swerve the audience, change their Mania event plans for the third year in a row and have Ambrose win the WWE title at Roadblock, then it would be for the absolute best.
Besides the NXT Tag-Team title match, which will be brilliant, there’s no other reason for WWE Roadblock to exist. It’s simply a roadblock in the WWE Creative team’s thinking because plans aren’t even solidified yet for WrestleMania 32.
Plain and simple, WWE Roadblock shouldn’t be going on and if it has to, then put it in place of a pay-per-view, not in between them.