WWE Raw: Burning Questions to Address After November 30 Show

Roman Reigns' quest for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and his battle with The Authority to accomplish it, once again dominated Monday Night Raw. But it was the formation of The League of Nations that stole headlines as Sheamus brought together four talented midcard talents to complete a new take on the foreign heel faction.

Along with The New Day, they made life a living hell for Reigns and his partners Dean Ambrose and The Usos, leaving the babyfaces lying down to close out the show.

The Dudley Boyz continued their blossoming rivalry with The Wyatt Family, enlisting the services of "The Innovator of Violence" Tommy Dreamer to help even the sides a bit.

Charlotte's feud with Paige took an interesting turn, as the Divas champion proved capable of dirty, underhanded tricks of her own en route to a victory over her best friend Becky Lynch, while Sasha Banks defeated Brie Bella elsewhere on the card.

The New Day was all over the show, Adam Rose underwent another character change and Lana returned to Monday nights in the worst imaginable way.

Raw was another lacking show, one that did little to restore faith in a creative process that has proven stale and under fire in recent months.

And on top of it all, it left burning questions in the mind of this writer that must be addressed.

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1. Is The League of Nations Really Creative's Answer to Getting Sheamus Over as Champion?

Monday night featured the formation of The League of Nations, and if the name was not a problem, the concept behind the group certainly is.

See, by adding King Barrett, Rusev and Alberto Del Rio to Sheamus' act, the idea is to present the WWE World Heavyweight champion over as a lead villain on Raw and SmackDown. The problem with that line of thinking is that Sheamus himself is an incredibly weak character. Do not forget, it was the Celtic Warrior who was jobbed out in glorious fashion at Survivor Series, just over an hour before he captured the top prize in the sport.

In that same match, Barrett was the first man eliminated from his team, while Del Rio and Rusev have been treated as nothing more than generic heel midcarders. Thus, when one looks at the group as a whole, they see four men who cannot be taken seriously as a faction, mainly because WWE Creative has not been bothered to do the same.

There is nothing to gain from the most recent creative development. If anything, it enhances the fact that Sheamus is but a midcard talent who lucked into another championship reign courtesy of an ill-timed injury and a stupid briefcase.

Until WWE Creative takes the initiative to book all four individuals as a legitimate threat, not just to Reigns, but to the entire roster, it will be nearly impossible to convince fans to buy into the faction as a whole.

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2. Is Selling for Aged Extremists Really The Best Way to Rebuild The Wyatt Family?

It is one thing to suffer a defeat at the hands of Undertaker and Kane, two guys fans accept as iconic figures in the world of sports entertainment. It is another completely to be beaten down and left reeling by three guys whose primes came during the height of Extreme Championship Wrestling, a promotion that has been dead and gone for 14 years.

Yet there was The Wyatt Family, bumping through tables and scurrying following a brawl with The Dudley Boyz and Tommy Dreamer, something that was far from the best use of a talented young faction that WWE Creative has repeatedly failed in the past.

That is not a complete indictment on the angle that aired Monday night on Raw. On the contrary, the segment was one of the best and only redeeming elements of the entire broadcast.

With that said, one has to wonder when WWE Creative is going to take the Wyatts seriously and let them roll over talent, as they should have from the very start. Instead, the perception fans will have of them is that they already cannot beat the likes of John Cena and Roman Reigns, and now they are struggling against aging veterans whose best days are far behind them.

It is the complete opposite of how they should be used at this point and will only serve to hurt the trio heading forward, even if they manage to beat the ECW originals when they have their final blow-off match.

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3. Which Divas are Heels and Which are Faces?

Paige is a heel because she betrayed Charlotte and Becky Lynch a few months back. But Charlotte cheated Monday night to beat Lynch, her best friend, and that is supposed to be admirable because of who her father is?

Brie Bella and sister Nikki were the lead villains in the Divas division up until the latter's loss to Charlotte, but now Brie is a babyface because Team B.A.D. made fun of her injured sibling.

Or something like that.

WWE Creative has done such a tremendously awful job of booking the characters and personas that exist on the Divas roster that it is nearly impossible to mesh out who is who, what their motivations are and who the real heroines and villains are.

The only Diva who can be cheered without fans feeling bad for themselves is the aforementioned Lynch, who has been betrayed by everyone around her. Even then, she's been beaten and shoved further into obscurity that it is impossible for fans to invest in her because they really do not know anything about her.

It was only six months ago that the so-called Divas Revolution started with great promise. Now, with so many talented women wallowing away in the same mediocrity that has encompassed the rest of the roster, it has reached a sad and unsatisfactory conclusion.