5 Takeaways From Monday Night Raw - 7/16/18

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Now I'm not a fan of Bobby Roode at all, and I feel like if he wants to do anything interesting in WWE, it will have to be involving a tag team or a complete character change.

However, his interaction with Mojo Rawley did not seem like a terrible idea. Now I know a feud between those two seems like a snoozefest to most, but I've seen enough out of Rawley to think he can hold his own in this mid-card feud. Let's just hope Roode isn't too annoying.

With the tag team champions, the B-Team successfully defending their titles last night, we saw The Revival watching from backstage, as well as the Authors of Pain win their match later on. These are two potential future champions in their own right.

The B-Team will likely lose their belts soon, which would open the door to make this a more serious division. Unfortunately for the current champs, this would be the right choice.

So it seems like Sasha and Bayley and cool again? With Banks saving Bayley from an attack, and their strange segment backstage, I don't know what to make of the pair.

It would seem as though WWE messed up this feud yet again, so there's not much left to say here.

Look, there are a couple of things everybody can agree on: Rousey is great with her all-out assaults, and WWE is just trying to buy some time until Summerslam, as Alexa Bliss will defend her title against Rousey at the show.

Extending her suspension won't do much for her, especially since it's by literally one week. I hope they don't keep reusing this every week, yet WWE wouldn't surprise me at all if they did.

Way to drop the ball, WWE. Starting off with a fantastic triple threat match involving Finn Bálor, Drew McIntyre, and the obvious winner Roman Reigns. The other match was very disappointing, with Bobby Lashley predictably defeating Elias and Seth Rollins.

Reigns will beat Lashley next week to get his "retribution" and face Lesnar at Summerslam for the Universal title. There so many potential outcomes, including a Reigns vs Rollins match, or even a Drew McIntyre vs Rollins rematch for next week. Instead all we can do is yawn...