WWE on Verge of Destroying The Club's Momentum with Recent Booking

If any WWE fans had an overriding fear that the company would blow its chance with Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, they are well on their way to being proved correct.

How WWE has managed to destroy such promising momentum in such a short span of time is nothing short of ludicrous, but Gallows and Anderson—and The Club in general—are in tatters after a series of haphazard booking decisions.

The insane hype and anticipation that came with the debuts of Gallows and Anderson shortly after WrestleMania 32 have quickly morphed into them being almost lost in the shuffle.

First of all, it's important to point out that few people expected AJ Styles to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Payback—but WWE could have booked The Club much stronger than what it has to date despite Styles' loss at Payback.

Key components of one of the hottest stables in the whole world of professional wrestling before coming to WWE, Gallows and Anderson are almost being booked as equals to The Usos, working as sidekicks to the lead man, Styles.

This Monday's episode of Raw was a prime example of that. In what should have been an eagerly anticipated six-man tag match between "The Family" and The Club, Gallows and Anderson were again booked in a way that made them look weak.

There was a segment just after the match where Roman Reigns managed to take them both out at practically the same time without any help. During the match, The Usos and Reigns beat both Gallows and Anderson in unspectacular fashion. As the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Justin LaBar wrote on Twitter: 

Even in WWE's era of reality and openness, how are fans who have never seen or heard of The Bullet Club supposed to believe that this WWE version of the stable is anywhere near a serious threat to the roster?

Sure, the commentators have talked them up fairly well, but overall, there's been nothing to suggest that Gallows and Anderson can take the place by storm. Look at their recent results for further evidence of that. Their last three matches (per the Internet Wrestling Database) have all ended in defeat, including a clean loss on SmackDown last week.

Starting out successfully in WWE so often comes down to hitting the ground running and chalking up plenty of wins in your first few weeks. Nearly every Superstar who has debuted with the company in recent years, even going down to the likes of Fandango and Ryback, has done it, so what did WWE expect would happen by pinning a run of losses on The Club?

The worrisome thing is, with Styles unlikely to claim the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Extreme Rules, it's difficult to see how WWE digs itself out of this hole it has made.

Bringing Gallows and Anderson to WWE and having them align with AJ Styles should have been the start of the most feared stable in the company since The Shield. Instead, it's limped along and unfortunately become Styles' buddies vs. Reigns' cousins. 

Well done, WWE. The chance you had to elevate The Club has subsided thanks to some shoddy, lazy and unimaginative booking.