Booking 10 Things That Should Happen After WrestleMania 33
2. Steph Takes A Back Seat
It’s probably the most fan and pundit-requested change to WWE programming of all time, and with good reason. Although she has been a competent character at various times throughout her career, Stephanie McMahon’s never ending run as RAW’s authority figure has long been one of the dullest, most carelessly written parts of the programme. She constantly belittles talent with no room for retaliation, she switches alignments and motivations multiple times within a single segment, and her overbearing presence has been the focus of RAW’s main event storyline’s for far too long.
Making Stephanie's role in the show less important - or at least less oppressive - will breed more organic, competition-fuelled feuds, rather than angles based around who Steph and Trips want to be ‘the company man’.
She doesn’t necessarily leave RAW, per se, but her character needs to take a step back and let a more likeable General Manager call the shots. Her on-and-off feud with current GM Mick Foley has led to nothing of any consequence, apart from diminishing fan support for Foley as a babyface authority figure. Stephanie needs a subordinate who is anything but; a character who can stand up to her conniving ways, and make RAW feel like a fan-friendly show again.
Now who could that be?