WWE and Monday Night RAW

I’ve been doing alot of thinking on this subject and I felt it was time to address these thoughts. I hope this doesn’t come off as rambling and unstructured because I feel I have some solid points.First I would like to discuss World Wrestling Entertainment as a whole, then I will talk about RAW.

The WWE is obviously the biggest games in town, as it were. This corporation has the biggest shows and best television production values: It is a money machine that moves from place to place on a weekly basis bringing the biggest spectacle in sports-entertainment today. Notice I didn’t say wrestling…I don’t feel that Vince McMahon and the WWE executive are concerned as much with the wrestling aspect of their product than they are about telling stories. I have been a life long wrestling fan for the better part of 27 years, so I understand that there have always been story lines. There will always been story lines and I accept that: Not only do I accept that, I even expect it. The business will not go on without a certain amount of fiction when it comes to feuds and rivalries. However, just because there is a story element to the feuds that does not mean there needs to be a lack of story telling in the ring. Not in very single case, but I feel there is a lack of in-ring story telling in most of the WWE product. Times change and trends come and go, but I remember a time when things were a bit different on the WWF/WWE when I was younger. I also remember when the NWA was strong and Ric Flair was THE MAN…He was everything that there was in a worker and a talker and a champion. Flair could literally work with anyone there was to work with and tell a story inside the ring. Think back to Steamboat, Lugar, Windham, Sting, Rhodes, and dozens of others: Those matches were epic and they all had one thing in common. They worked hard to tell a story inside the ring and I truly miss that in the current WWE product. I would love to see some sort of change within the product and it might hold my attention a bit better. I do not mean that there is never a good match or good story line, this is just my opinion.

Moving on to Monday Night RAW….There was a time when RAW was the top show to watch without fail. It was so important that there was no way in hell that anyone would miss it. The show was exciting and felt like a crazy roller coaster from start to finish. And it was that way every single week leading into ppv’s…there was always something new and surprising and worthy of unfaltering attention. I’m not sure if it is because I’ve grown a little older or due to the fact that the product is a bit watered down these days; I’m not exactly sure one way or another. I just know that I do not enjoy the show on a regular basis as I once did. All the guest hosts on earth are not going to fix the fact that changes need to be made on the product: Presentation, booking, and number of throw-away matches need to be reconsidered to make things get back to the way it once was. Again, this is simply my opinion.