10 Things That Must Happen Ahead Of WWE Fastlane 2017

10. Drop The ‘Fastlane’ Puns

First things first with a minor housekeeping note.

With six full hours of Raw programming still to fit in before Fastlane rolls around, if the writers want to ensure that those six hours remain watchable then they need to ease off on the gimmicky lingo.

This past week on Raw, after Brawn Strowman had laid waste to Roman Reigns, Michael Cole issued a word of warning: “Roman Reigns may want to get out of the fast lane, no pun intended”.

No, Cole, that pun was completely intended. There’s no way that language like that would feature in his commentary if the namesake PPV wasn’t right around the corner, and it only makes the show feel even more contrived and over-produced than usual.

Granted, this was likely a line that was fed to Cole from the powers that be backstage, and so criticism shouldn’t be directed at the announcer himself. But for the sake of keeping Raw's commentary bearable, whoever’s responsible for these overly forced lines should think about Roman Reigning it in a little. Pun very much intended.