6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (7 August)

3. Full-Time Job Requires Three Hours Of Work

Adam Pearce must have the easiest job in the world. As a WWE official who makes matches and effectively runs the operations on Raw (in storyline), he should be spending his week planning out the best possible card so the show is highly entertaining and successful.

Instead, he really just needs to come to work on Monday night five minutes before Raw goes live and hang around the gorilla position to run out onto the ramp when wrestlers start squabbling and make all the challenges for matches official for later in the night, or in some cases, call a referee to the ring immediately.

Monday night, Pearce “booked” a six-man tag team main event and two singles matches off impromptu challenges and confrontations that took place during the show. Throw in an open challenge match where he didn’t have to do anything and you’ve got more than half of Raw booked on the fly during the show.

There’s a heavy dose of sarcasm here, but the point remains: three impromptu matches, plus an open challenge. Other than the fatal four-way and the Shinsuke Nakamura/Bronson Reed rematch, nothing was set when Raw went on the air. If no one had a confrontation, would Raw have ended at 8:45pm?

Just stop doing this. One impromptu match every 3-4 weeks would be one thing, but three every week? It’s madness, and it’s going to get called out every time.