10 Biggest WWE Creative Mistakes Of 2020
9. RAW Underground
Shane McMahon saunters into the back door of the Performance Center, doing that little dance. Vince McMahon is inside blowing a gasket. The script sucks. The ratings suck. Goddamnit, he needs ideas.
Some droplets of sweat form a pool on the 33-page Randy Orton promo he is amending in red pen. He looks up. The prodigal son has returned. "I've got an idea, dad," he days.
"A sick idea."
The idea is an underground fighting club in which several wrestlers no casual fan has ever heard of fight for no stakes, no prize, no purpose. If you'd like to know who they are, then tough sh*t: the camera cuts are even worse than on the main show. The fights don't much resemble worked shoots. This isn't the UWF-i; this is a fairly cooperative ground and strike-based version of the WWE style MC'd by an incredibly enthusiastic Shane McMahon who screams, incessantly, "That's sick! Oh man that's sick!"
He does so in front of ring girls who disappear after a week when somebody reminds management that they decided to treat women like women five years prior - some 95 years after they were given the right to vote.
Shane also gets between the fighters when one is winning handily and says things like "Hey! Hey! It's over, you did good, you did good!"
Shane McMahon likes MMA. He thinks that sh*t is f*cking sick.