WWE RAW: Confusion galore as Shield gets a taste of its own medicine

The Shield were outnumbered but impressed on WWE RAW

This week, RAW was in Chicago but it was an episode which came out to be a bit confusing. Not that RAW is not confusing and illogical most of the time, but what transpired on RAW seems to be a wait and watch step. The confusion is not related to the fact that the Authority suddenly turned mellow and sweet. You can find Aladdin’s lamp and you can find the Kohinoor, but you can’t possibly find any possible reason to believe that Stephanie McMahon and Triple H will be all nice and tender in the hottest storyline going on and especially when their heel heat is what’s partly keeping the fire burning. But what was confusing was that Shield went on to face all 11 men and they beat most of them clean, and they lost clean with Daniel Bryan standing tall.

It is not impressive when 11 babyfaces struggle to get 3 men under control. It is immensely impressive when three men come close to knocking 11 men out. By the end of the match, four babyfaces were left to face Seth Rollins who was the only member of the Shield left fighting. The four men went on to attack him together. The bell did not ring.

In handicap matches, such interferences are common and allowed. So in that case, even seven men getting eliminated is seriously confusing. The Shield did not get any help and they were left to take care of this business alone. Does that mean that the Shield could possibly turn on the Authority?

There’s two weeks left for Battleground. So in two weeks, something will transpire on those grounds. But I hardly believe that the Shield is done with the Authority. The Shield’s performance would have impressed the bosses and this build up to Battleground seems to be a case of getting the boss’s trust. Randy Orton is on that job. Big Show has accepted his fate it seems and The Shield might have just followed suit. But the authority’s mushy act did have a catch – killing them softly. The Wyatt family knocked the Prime Time Players out, RVD was injured and so was Kofi Kingston.

It gets quite lonely at the top. Triple H and Stephanie are very well together up there and the Big Show seems to be their only sure shot attack. But the rest of the alliance has gone haywire. Will the Shield be replaced by the Wyatt family? If that happens, where does that leave the Shield? Then they might show the first signs of cracking up. I stop here as this is leaning towards a bizarre blizzard.

But most probably, the Shield won’t be appreciated by the Authority as much as we appreciated the awesomeness on display by them. Maybe, the Authority won’t address the Shield at all in this case and move on to the next set of mind games and stick with the Hounds of Justice for another day.

But what happened in Chicago won’t stay in Chicago. The Shield needs some answers and so do we.