10 Best Things WWE Could Do With The Crown Jewel & Saudi Arabia Money
7. P Y R O
A simple pleasure this, but one that quite literally wasn't appreciated in its own time.
Pyrotechnics were both a blessing and a curse for WWE when they first experimented with over-stuffing their shows with smoke and mirrors (...and fire) in the mid-1990s. An overabundance of it in 1996 and 1997 resulted in many matches taking place with a cloud above the ring as if Vince McMahon hadn't taken his fathers company out of those turgid and tepid halls he'd demonised after all.
Investing in smoke-clearing devices, the company could then invest in more pyro. The special effects went from being main event set dressing to an expectation of the rank-and-file. Missiles and bombs greeted The Dudley Boys, Kane continued to walk through hellfire and brimstone even when blindly strolling into jobbing duties, and Alberto Del Rio made it rain gold even if his act didn't exactly shower the company in green.
It's a basic aesthetic improvement, really. Sometimes Raw and SmackDown can be really dull, and it's nice to stare, depressed, off into a middle distance filled with light and sound rather than the dark reality of yet another midcard snoozer.