[MENTION=858]Amir[/MENTION] [MENTION=136193]Adil_94[/MENTION] [MENTION=53290]Markhor[/MENTION] [MENTION=47617]Red Devil[/MENTION] [MENTION=132954]Aman[/MENTION]
I have been watching wrestling since the Monday Night wars and tapes which go back to the 1970-1980 period, and every time I click on the TV to watch a wrestling show I hope for the best and plan to enjoy what I watch. It’s because I love wrestling that I tend to be hard on some shows, if you want to call it that. Let me explain further, when I got into wrestling, TV was booked episodically; the stories flowed from show to show like a daily soap opera, the champions and finishes were protected and the challengers won matches to ensure their credibility leading into their title matches. The tag team champions were important individuals, and protected and rarely even lost in single matches (and if they did it was to someone like the world champion).
The basics were a rule, not a suggestion; because making sure that things make sense and were carefully done were a necessity to survive, to draw a house and to make the money to stay on TV. I have watched companies thrive, be born, and also watched all too many companies die. But because I want things to make sense, because I want things to mean something and want the wrestling to be quality; some say that wrestling has passed me by. The business may have changed, but the basics are the basics for a reason, they work.
The only reason I wrote that was to make it clear as to where I am coming from. If something is good, I will call it good. If it is bad, I call it bad and that's not whining [MENTION=137419]dashing_man[/MENTION] with a little bit of sense your narrow mind should not be consumed by fanboyism but it is and it's not surprising you fail to address the poor ratings and god awful product; instead your curse fans who want the WWE to thrive and embrace what Vince feeds you. Raw has not been a good show for a very long time, in my opinion, and it is because they continue to go against basic booking (NOT FANTASY BOOKING or a 9/10 show [MENTION=137419]dashing_man[/MENTION]), basic booking that makes sense week in and out. It feels like they are still booking one week at a time to fill the three hours. So what if things don’t make sense, if they fill the time, they are happy. WWE has lost the consistency to book effective episodic TV, and they lost it a long time ago, and I doubt it will get better any time soon. The funny thing is WWE doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as a “wrestling product” because they want to be a “TV/Entertainment product”. But the thing that they forget is that at the heart of it, that is what wrestling is when done properly. And the real shame of it is that they have such a great roster and so many smart people behind the scenes that it shouldn’t be that way.
If a show like this one tonight is the “new wrestling” then it can pass me on by because this was a badly booked, completely uninspired show that wasted three hours. Watching wrestling shouldn’t be a hassle, I shouldn’t have to question why things do not make sense or why champions and challenger constantly lose. Bad booking, tons of filler and an end product that felt as if it was booked on the plane ride to Europe on a napkin is what I felt like we get these days.
The rights were minimal, the wrongs that are always there were always there, and the wrestling was generally forgettable and at times, completely uninspired. But you can’t blame the workers when they have 60-seconds and they know they are out there just to fill time. Wyatts losing again despite their new found momentum , Big E losing clean to Cancer, Kane in a main-event program in 2015 despite being booked like a glorified jobber, Rollins being made to look like a complete fool, filler, filler, filler; the show was a complete struggle to me like most and at the end of the night I didn’t think it was good, at all. This is how I’ve been feeling after every RAW for the past few years, a fan who has been following the WWE religiously through all the ups and downs and you have WWE marks like [MENTION=137419]dashing_man[/MENTION] complain why people are not interested anymore and complain when we're in a perfect position to speak the truth through our criticisms.
The company always has great weekends with Mania and the Raw after, they gain momentum only to lose it all and ratingz ultimately suffer when the talent on the main-roster is not utilized.