10 Worrying Trends WWE Need To End

You’ve settled in your couch for the night and decided you’ve already watched everything on Netflix. As a casual wrestling fan, you say to yourself "hey it's Monday night, Raw is coming on I will tune in for the first time in a while." And instead of wrestling, you are treated to 30 minutes of Shane McMahon talking leading into a commercial break. Without one bell getting run, you as casual wrestling fan number 250,000 have tuned out and went back to Netflix.

This is exactly the scenario that is plaguing the viewership numbers. Nobody tunes into wrestling for the first time in weeks, months, or years and wishes they’d see a bunch of talking. Fine, a small segment to lead into a match or a really good promo can work. But to every week start off your show with a talking segment that seems to never end? Not the best way to entice people to keep coming back. And that is one of the many reasons why hour two and three of Raw consistently tanks.

We have seen glimpses that this may be on the way out, but we've already suffered through way too many of these openings. The same can be said for the damage the wildcard rule has done, or any of the 9 other trends mentioned in this article. Right now fixing these issues is less about fine tuning and more about rebuilding. They are in full damage control mode, as they need to get their viewership up in time for October.

There is another trend in wrestling right now, after all. In all its blood, guts, and gory glory.