WWE News On Creative Issues, Lack Of Brock Lesnar At Raw

The creative issues continue. If you watched Raw then you know.

Last night's Raw was another show that left WWE fans scratching their hands about some of the things that happened. It seemed like the goal was to push Dean Ambrose and his return, which is fine, but everything else on the show just seemed off. During last night's Wrestling Observer Radio at F4WOnline, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez talked about some of the creative issues with the show. They noted that Paul Heyman was originally booked for Raw to talk about the WWE Title situation, but if you watched the show then you know that there was no sign of him all night. Brock Lesnar was also not on Raw. He never booked for or advertised to be at the show, so that's to be expected, but fans also expected to at least here from one of them to talk about the previous night's WWE Title match at Night of Champions. Instead, no sign of Heyman and they barely mentioned the WWE Title. The storyline idea was they would start the build for Hell in a Cell, but apparently that plan changed. The report from F4WOnline notes that WWE's creative team was changing things on Raw and re-writing the show as the show aired. That's a very bad sign. There were logic holes all over the place including when Seth Rollins stole a car on national television, then returned without anything happening to him. We also had to believe that Dean Ambrose could get out of a locked room that had security outside of it and somehow he replaced cinderblocks to appear under a box at ringside. Another note on the creative front is that a few hours before Raw, WWE put out a tweet saying that it would be Randy Orton vs. Dean Ambrose on Raw. If you went to WWE.com to read their preview of the show, there was a graphic for Orton/Ambrose and it was written that it would take place. That match never happened because Ambrose faced Kane and Orton wrestled John Cena again in the main event. The Hell in a Cell PPV wasn't really mentioned at all. They have five weeks, but it would have been nice if there was some mention of what's coming next.
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