4 Ups And 4 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 14th)

1. UP- Celebrities Don't Overshadow Wrestlers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jrn-j0REs Finally, it looks like someone on WWE€™s writing staff got the memo that fans don€™t want 15 minutes of D-list celebrity nonsense gumming up their wrestling program. When it was announced that reality TV stars NeNe Leakes (of Real Housewives of Atlanta) and Todd Chrisley (of Chrisley Knows Best) would both appear on Raw Monday night, many fans likely cringed, especially after last week€™s in-ring debacle involving talk show hosts Hoda and Kathie Lee. But instead, WWE kept its €œcelebrities€ limited to a couple short, inoffensive segments. Chrisley was in the audience as a 30-second preview of his show was shown, then Tom Phillips interviewed him at ringside for about two minutes while Sheamus made his entrance. The clever part about this was making the interview only audible to the TV audience while the live audience continued to watch Sheamus enter the ring. This eliminated the very likely result of fans turning on Chrisley and booing him mercilessly. Leakes got a brief backstage segment with the Total Divas (thus combining two elements of Raw that could be done without), then accompanied the face Divas to the ring for a tag match. She celebrated with them after their victory, and that was it. Look, WWE is not going to do away with its love affair with pseudo-celebrities, but if the company can figure out a way to incorporate them without dragging the rest of the program down or insulting fans€™ intelligence too much, then it becomes infinitely less offensive. And in this situation, fans can€™t ask for much more.