5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (1 Jun - Results & Review)
2. Upon Further Review…
… the booking of the Oba Femi versus Brock Lesnar match at Clash in Italystill was atrocious.
Less than 24 hours after Brock decimated Oba with seven F-5s, the Ruler went out on Raw and ran through three other men to win his first-round match in the King of the Ring tournament. While that was the right booking, having Femi bounce back like that meant that he was only “mostly dead” at Clash, and able to recover quickly – perhaps a bit too quickly, almost shrugging off the injuries.
But here’s the part that really rings hollow. Even if WWE wanted to do a trilogy all along, they had a great roadmap to follow in Cody Rhodes versus Seth Rollins, where Cody won all three matches in their initial series, and no one blinked. They could have easily booked Oba to win Sunday and have Lesnar attack him afterward to issue the “a**-whooping” that he promised.
Femi could have delivered the same post-match promo on Monday night, and it would have still rang true. The difference would have been that Oba still would have looked invincible heading into KOTR rather than being a wounded animal who needed the win to show he could shake off Sunday’s loss.