10 Things WWE Needs To Stop Doing IMMEDIATELY

7. The Minimal Announcements

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While it's nowadays ridiculous to see poor Excalibur have to rattle through a multitude of match-up announcements in a short amount of time over on AEW programming, Tony Khan's promotion should absolutely be commended for how they have their Dynamite and Rampage line-ups in place weeks' ahead of time.

For WWE, it's completely the polar opposite to AEW when it comes to having upcoming shows mapped out and letting its audience know what to expect.

As an example, the line-up for this week's AEW Dynamite was set in stone on last week's Dynamite, with fans knowing that they'll be tuning in to see 'Hangman' Adam Page vs. Kip Sabian, Jungle Boy vs. Brian Cage, Mark Briscoe vs. Josh Woods, Toni Storm vs. Britt Baker vs. Ruby Soho, and Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. RUSH & Preston Vance. Likewise, it was revealed that Wardlow would be sitting down to talk to Jim Ross, Adam Cole would be interviewed by Renee Paquette, and there'd be an appearance from AEW World Champion MJF.

That's five matches and three segments announced one whole week ahead of time for a two-hour broadcast. In WWE's case, with three hours to fill on Mondays and a further two hours on Fridays, you'll be lucky if you get two matches announced for either Raw or SmackDown - and even then, such announcements are often made online on the day of the show.

To look at this situation from a very basic, simple angle, how bush league does it look on a kayfabe level when so many matches are conveniently put together as Raw is in process? As in, if Wrestler A didn't unexpectedly come out to interrupt Wrestler B and set up a contrived singles bout, what exactly did WWE management have planned to take up Raw's three hours?

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