The Vince Announcement Was…..
Now stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Vince opened this week’s show and brought out Stephanie McMahon, Triple H and Shane McMahon, with the big announcement being that the four of them would be taking over both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live on a more permanent basis. While details weren’t clear, they said that middle management would no longer be running the shows, which could mean having no General Manager on either show, though this wasn’t confirmed. Baron Corbin attempted to become permanent General Manager again, but was defeated in a match with Corbin’s authority on the line.
So yeah, it’s more McMahons, more bosses, and more “matches we’ve never seen before”. It sounds to me like we’re going to be seeing something else to go with this and a Draft/a bunch of callups wouldn’t shock me. The problem here though is that it’s more of the same: a focus on the bosses disguised as the focus being on the fans. The opening segment and match took more than thirty minutes and it didn’t include anything concrete. It’s too early to say how this is going to go, but how long do you think it’ll be before we have a new GM style character? February? In a good world?
All I took from this was Survivor Series still doesn’t matter.
If only there was a long history of the show not mattering that would let us know that would have been the case.
The problem isn’t the talent, it’s lack of creativity and coherent story telling. The irony of them doing the exact same Corbin segment from last night, minus Braun/add table, is perfectly fitting for a show that lacks creativity. On top of that they couldn’t let Angle squash Corbin in a minute or so, they actually had to let Corbin get Kurt down and beat on him.
Well what do you expect, for them to go out on live TV and directly say “yeah our writing has been shit”?
There’s a good chance that all of this won’t lead to any big changes, but let’s just wait and see.