Last week’s RAW opened with Seth Rollins, Brock Lesnar, Paul Heyman, and Oba Femi, with Femi dropping Lesnar in a shocking moment. That image would have been a perfect closing shot. Instead, the episode began and ended with the same two feuds involving Roman Reigns and CM Punk.
This week’s show repeated the pattern, starting and finishing with those rivalries. While Reigns laying waste to Punk was impactful, WWE risks monotony by not rotating main event slots. NXT recently closed with a steel cage match outside its title feud, showing variety can enhance pacing.