WWE Botch of the Week: John Laurinaitis Saying He Rehired Big Show on Saturday

Logic is not the WWE’s strong point. 

You and I both know that booking that actually makes sense is rare these days, and more often than not, the way storylines play out leaves you scratching your head. 

On some of these, I can give the WWE a free pass, but I can’t do that after the booking atrocity that happened on this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw. 

In the show-opening segment, John Laurinaitis announced that he had rehired The Big Show on Saturday, roughly 24 hours before Show interfered on Laurinaitis’ behalf and helped him beat John Cena to retain his job. 

There was just one glaring plot hole, though: Per the stipulation of the match, any WWE superstar who interfered in that match would be immediately fired. 

Thus, since Big Show was technically a WWE superstar again, he should have actually been fired for the second time in a seven-day span. 

As soon as that happened, my Twitter feed—and I’m sure yours as well—blew up with complaints about the obvious lack of logic here, as Laurinaitis rehiring Big Show on Saturday would have completely ruined what already isn’t a great storyline. 

What makes matters even worse is that Laurinaitis’ error wasn’t entirely his fault, because the mistake listing the date of Big Show’s rehiring as Saturday was reportedly in Raw’s script as well, according to f4wonline.com (h/t sescoops.com).

So, let me get this straight—no one in the WWE noticed that having Laurinaitis rehire Show on Saturday would have technically resulted in him having to be fired again on Sunday? 

That’s absolutely ridiculous. 

The massive mistake was cleaned up by Michael Cole on commentary later in the show, but by that point, anyone with a Twitter account was well aware of this colossal screw-up. 

This probably isn’t going to matter much in the long run, but right now, it’s a perfect example of what’s sorely been lacking from the WWE’s booking as of late: logic. 

I don’t think it’s too much for us fans to ask for logical storylines without gaping holes that anyone could point out. 

It’s bad enough that Raw was run by a computer for, like, a year and that we never got any closure on that storyline, but when the biggest storyline currently going on in the WWE doesn’t make any sense, it’s hard to take the WWE seriously.

Drake Oz is the WWE Lead Writer for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter and ask him any wrestling-related questions (to be answered in the B/R Mailbag) on Formspring.