8 Things WWE Want You To Forget About The Raw After WrestleMania
5. Working The Towns
The long weekend in their WrestleMania locale has removed much of the graft for WWE's over-worked production staffers in recent years. Setting up a building for Friday's Hall of Fame before rejigging it for Saturday's NXT TakeOver, the crew then only have to tinker with it slightly in time for the following week's Raw and SmackDown return.
This relatively new phenomenon has made it easier for post-Mania audiences to extend their own vacations through to the Monday and Tuesday broadcasts, satisfying the last lingering demand for wrestling in the chosen city before the group finally returns to the grind.
The company weren't always so synergistic with their scheduling.
Though often in the same state, WWE rarely stayed put in the same city with tickets to be sold in towns elsewhere. The business of the business was still 'travelling show', with pay-per-view buyrates and huge television rights deals yet to figure into the bottom line in a way quite as meaningful as a healthy gate receipt. This hijacked some of the hijinks now seen today from the holidaying hedonists.