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2. RAW Underground's Exotic Dancers
Once again, you have to admire the sheer, transparent gumption of WWE here. Picturing the production meeting and the thought process behind it is simply really, really funny.
What happened is that WWE's dreadful Performance Center residency was a ratings disaster.
Something had to be done.
In response, the broad and madcap WWE did everything - and that "everything" was a laser-focused assault on the Affliction Clothing-clad 18-49 male demographic. And thus, RAW Underground was born.
It was a nausea-inducing nightmare of camera cuts literally every second that barely captured a long-forgotten Fight Club zeitgeist. Worked-shoot matches hosted by Shane McMahon, who screamed "Sickohohthat'ssick" at every piss-poor whiffed strike and loose grappling application.
A total dirge overload of aspirational bro energy, it was also really funny given how little thought went into it.
"Let's do UFC mixed with, like, a Fight Club vibe. Put Shane in there. Make it seem cool and underground. Actually, call it Underground. It needs to look chaotic, so don't linger on anything. For more than a second. That way, people will think it's really cray-cray."
"Hmmm," Kevin Dunn said, surveying the vat of frantic ideas.
"Needs more titsssssssssssss."
And thus, the RAW Underground dancers were born - before several fans pointed out that it somewhat undid all of Stephanie McMahon's bullsh*t rhetoric, and they were scrapped.