10 Booking Steps For WWE Raw (Dec 12)
There's every chance Raw will end with heels on top...
The coming episode of Monday Night Raw will be the last before the red brand presents Roadblock: End Of The Line on December 18. That pay-per-view only has three matches currently planned.
Roman Reigns challenges Kevin Owens for the WWE Universal Title, Chris Jericho battles Seth Rollins, and Sasha Banks defends the Raw Women's Title against Charlotte Flair in a 30-minute Iron Man encounter.
WWE must set up some more matches for the show this week, filling out the card to complement that hefty trio. There's space to include rivalries such as Enzo Amore and Big Cass vs. Rusev, Bayley vs. Alicia Fox, Braun Strowman's issues with Sami Zayn, and perhaps even a Raw Tag-Team Title bout for The New Day.
Key to Raw's success lately has been the fraught relationship between Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho. That should come into play again this week, and WWE's writing team have the chance to capitalise on suggested problems between the on screen buddies.
From debuts and major matches to pay-per-view set up and title history being made, let's see what WWE could have planned come Raw...
10. Mick Foley Makes Epic Tag-Team Main Event
It seems unlikely that WWE won't continue booking a schism between Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho on Raw this coming week. After all, that story has been dominant on the program lately and there's more mileage to glean from the affair. Personal issues would be ideal for Raw's main event.
Coming out to address his issues with KO, Jericho stands in the ring and demands to know why Owens came out to 'help him' against Roman Reigns last week. After all, if Owens was so worried about Y2J winning the WWE United States Title, he would have stayed away from his in-ring business.
Naturally, this would provoke KO. Once he had come out to retort, the likes of Reigns and Seth Rollins then get involved. Eventually, things break down into an all-out argument, forcing General Manager Mick Foley to emerge and try to sort things out.
Putting a spin on the established formula of babyfaces vs. heels in the main event, Foley announces that Y2J will team with Reigns to face Owens and Rollins in tag action.