10 Things WWE Got Horribly Wrong In 2016
8. The Never Ending McMahon Family Drama
Another year of professional wrestling is almost behind us, and yet again it was a year where the continued presence of the McMahon Family did more harm than good. Shane McMahon returned to WWE early in the year, and in all truth his presence on SmackDown Live has been strangely refreshing but this is more than likely because of how little he is involved.
Over on Raw the story couldn’t be more different, as Stephanie McMahon has had yet another year of undermining talent and portraying the most contradictory of characters. The looming spectre of Triple H hasn’t helped either, and Raw GM Mick Foley has subsequently come across as a maddening old puppet.
Will the day ever come where WWE programming can run without the overbearing presence of the McMahon family? Obviously not behind the scenes, but the interest in seeing them on screen must be at an all time low. SmackDown Live has trounced Raw in the post-draft WWE landscape and a lot of this has to do with how the authority figures are portrayed. Raw is still in the bad old days of matches being booked on the fly and little sense being made.
The McMahons need to take a backseat in the new year.