13 Ups And 23 Downs For WWE In 2020

5. Who Writes This Crap?

We’ve detailed many horrible moments and ongoing angles throughout 2020 (with a few more to come), but we really need to point the finger at the overall problem.

No, it isn’t the wrestlers themselves. They can only do what they can with what they’re given, and that means the fault has to lie with the writers and bookers who put this product on television every week. With dozens of writers and agents involved in the production of Raw, SmackDown and the monthly PPVs, you’d think they’d be able to filter out the bad and put on a good show, but that just hasn’t been the case in 2020.

We’ve seen never-ending angles between the same small group of wrestlers for months on end with little to no progression. We’ve seen uninspired in-ring action – and while you can forgive the wrestlers a bit because of the lack of fan reaction, it’s tough to excuse the most talented roster in professional wrestling. Simply put, the talent is all there, but the execution is not.

Randy Orton’s feuds with Drew McIntyre and Bray Wyatt have been among the worst written stuff of the year. The entire booking of RETRIBUTION has been a joke. The Rey Mysterio/Seth Rollins and Apollo Crews/Hurt Business rivalries that droned on for months were horribly uneventful. And the misuse of wrestlers like Ricochet, Kevin Owens, Keith Lee, Aleister Black, Andrade and several others was criminal.

The writers should be embarrassed, and several probably should be fired for their collective incompetence. The ratings and fan assessments don’t lie: something drastically needs to change in 2021, and no, we’re not talking about bringing back Raw Underground.