WWE Raw: 10 Things You Might Have Missed (May 16)

This week's Raw was the final episode before Extreme Rules, and one last push was made for the matches on the show... well, most of them, anyway. While the company did a good job hyping the three most anticipated bouts for the event - Roman Reigns versus AJ Styles for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, Chris Jericho versus Dean Ambrose, and the Intercontinental Title Fatal Four-Way - everything else felt like it was just there.

In the end, despite an excellent first hour and bursts of greatness later in the show (especially The New Day's time machine segment), this felt like the weakest Raw in a little while. It certainly wasn't a bad show - it's hard to say that given the episodes WWE aired in February and March - but there was a definite drag that hasn't been felt lately. Compounding that were some questionable booking decisions, including a high-profile loss for the increasingly badly-used Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows.

Still, the product feels hot (even if the ratings don't reflect that), and a great crowd helped add to the show. Here are ten things you may have missed from Monday's Raw - not including the passing mention of a Dolph Ziggler-Baron Corbin match at Extreme Rules's pre-show, despite neither man being on this broadcast.

AJ Styles opened up the Raw broadcast by coming to the ring and speaking his mind. He complained that over the past couple of weeks, everybody's started calling him a liar and insinuating that he is conspiring with Gallows and Anderson to take the WWE World Heavyweight Championship from Roman Reigns.

Styles showed tweets from fans who have taken The Club's association as fact, but assured everyone that he didn't need their help. According to Styles, he's headlined at the Tokyo Dome in front of 60,000 fans and won titles all around the world. Finally, Roman Reigns confronted him and reiterated that Styles is indeed a liar.

Reigns was actually correct, in this case. Styles has never headlined a show at the Tokyo Dome. He's competed there three times - at Wrestle Kingdoms 2, 9, and 10 - working his way from the opener to the third match from the top and, finally, to the semi-main event. At each show, Hiroshi Tanahashi was on top (against Shinsuke Nakamura at 2, and against Kazuchika Okada at 9 and 10).

Also, while we're checking facts, none of those events drew 60,000 fans. Wrestle Kingdom 9 did the best gate of the three, but only drew 36,000 fans.