10 Ways WWE Can Shake Up RAW

5. Stop Giving Up On Stories

THE MIZ 2020
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Are we supposed to believe that all those months ago, when a group of masked men and women were disrupting RAW and causing the announcers to bellow 'ITS THE GROUP KNOWN AS RETRIBUTION', the end game was Ricochet losing his way through a group of chumps on his way to probably losing to Ali? If that was always the case, that might be the worst story in the history of professional wrestling.

WWE has a real problem with holding its nerve with new stories. What happened to RAW Underground? Sure, it was pretty bad, but abandoning the gimmick just made things worse. The world's biggest wrestling promotion doesn't seem capable of seeing its stories all the way to their ends, and everyone suffers as a result. Viewers lose reasons to care about the stories being told if they never go anywhere.

Maybe Retribution was put together as another way to punish Ricochet. It isn't out the realm of possibility, although it would be a new low for a creative team that specialises in lowpoints. The likelihood is that WWE lost its nerve and abandoned the story, leaving its performers and viewers in credibility purgatory as a result.

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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.