10 Best WWE Set Designs

7. Raw (2019 - 2020)

Smackdown Fist
WWE

Was it just that WWE had been forced to give a sh*t again when they couldn't leave Raw left to fester during SmackDown's move to Fox in October 2019?

Back then - and in the fog of 2020 it may as well be a hundred years ago let alone less than one - there was the small but loud threat of AEW's weekly show Dynamite on the horizon, as well as figuring out how to balance the perception that the red brand was still the flagship despite the obvious evidence that it longer was.

WWE are simply no longer the company that can tell enough stories to return the show to former glories. But they can blow the f*ck out of a dormant pyro budget and erect a massive skate ramp.

Still technically the current Raw set unless the company go for a full rebadge when they're permitted to leave the ThunderDome, this teasing structure made it until the following January before Kevin Owens made use of the unique shape by running halfway up it before hitting AOP with a dive. As you do, in a "Fist Fight".

 
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