10 Things WWE Actually Got Right In 2019

10. New Stages

Both SmackDown and Raw had long been in need of freshening up, having looked the same, and interchangeable with each other, for years now (minus the colour, obviously).

Change was all the more necessary with the arrival of AEW and the gorgeous, futuristic looking duel portals Jon Moxley is apparently so scared of.

This autumn’s, “season premieres,” with SmackDown in a new home and time slot and Raw, well, rolling on but in a, “season premiere,” way, was the perfect opportunity to introduce a new look and WWE’s production teams seized it.

Both Raw’s skate ramp and SmackDown’s giant brackets looked beautiful and were further enhanced by the re-introduction of pyro. It’s good, you know, pyro. Fans probably should have been calling for it for years.

Of course, a wrestling show stands and falls not on the splendour of its set but the strength of the show it presents on that set. Unsurprisingly then, these new sets didn’t usher in a new era of critical acclaim and massive ratings. Still, WWE’s television product briefly looked and felt like the big deal it purports itself to be.