10 Ways WWE Can Shake Up RAW

1. Abandon Three Hour Shows

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It isn't going to happen. Why would it? The decision to make RAW a three-hour show has brought untold riches to WWE, allowing the company to basically print money and do as it pleases without the fear of, you know, having to put on a good show in the hope of attracting viewers and better ratings. The three-hour format is the worst thing that has happened to WWE in a creative sense, although the company's bank balance might disagree.

If WWE wants to improve RAW, it needs to go back to two hours. This is easy to say, of course, and isn't guaranteed to do anything positive at all. The damage is likely already done. SmackDown is a two-hour show and some recent episodes of the blue brand have been beyond terrible.

But three hours is too much. It just is. Three hours is too long to do anything, especially watching a mediocre professional wrestling show. You could put people in front of The Wire for three hours and fatigue would certainly set in as the hours go by. Expecting people to enjoy three hours of Miz promos and Elias matches is naive at best, self-destructive at worst.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.