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Ratings have hit an all time low in WWE for both Raw and Smackdown this week and while I’m sure the higher-ups will scoff at these numbers and fool themselves that it’s no big deal and this is just following the trend. Do not kid yourself these numbers are at an all time low in fact because 70% of WWE product is objectively just bad. There are fewer people watching wrestling today than 10 or 15 years ago those are just facts, and while wrestling as evolved in many positive ways except for probably the most crucial one there is storytelling. A majority of WWE television feels like it’s being written for children when a majority of their paying customers are adults. Yes wrestling does not need to have a feel an award-winning drama, but to constantly insult your audience intelligence with obvious lapse in logic, no continuity, your never rewarded for remember any details, characters constantly flip-flopping, it’s just horrible storytelling that would not be excepted for any other for genre. So when I read Raw the flagship show almost went below 2 million viewers in one hour this barely hanging on fan was not shocked.

As we approach another Monday Night Raw one can only hope the current direction will get better; as the most recent shows have been built around “The Shield” vs “War Dogs” and on paper that seems interesting enough; with big names such as Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Braun, and Drew; this should be a very hot story-line. However it’s not and the majority of that blames falls all on Roman Reigns; now this may come across unfair and this is nothing personal to man playing the character, but WWE is currently is dumping a tone of valuable resources into getting Roman over with a large majority of their fans; the same fans who have been rejected this man since 2015, were going on almost 4 years when will the madness end? It’s one thing to dedicate an endless amount of TV time to Roman, but now it’s taken hostages; just in the last 6 months Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, Baron Corbin, Bobby Lashley, Seth Rollins, and Dean Ambrose have all lost momentum because of their association with The Big Dog. So now because the top of the card is so damaged it just seeps all the way down the card which has made Monday nights a very tough 3 hours to sit through.