WWE Stomping Grounds: 8 Last-Minute Rumours You Need To Know
1. There's Going To Be Hell On
Surely.
Surely.
Surely, this is it.
Surely after the creative dearth that has been WWE in 2019, surely after the ratings have continued to plummet to eye-watering levels even past the NBA season, surely after a needless, half-hearted C-Level PPV has yielded some of the company's more startlingly low ticket sales in a generation, surely, after all of this, something has to give.
Barring an improbably entertaining evening where the undeniably talented roster are permitted to salvage their booking with their in-ring work, WWE will have to take this show as a wake up call. Across 5 hours of weekly television there are, at best, a handful of bright spots amongst an almost universally underwhelming product, all of which builds to bloated, confusing, infrequent events like this.
Fans are leaving in their droves, talent are desperate to join them, and while the company are in no danger of being in any financial danger as a result surely conversations are going to need to be had in the very upper floors of Titan Towers. Whoever's on one side of that table - be it Triple H, the shareholders, network executive, whoever - Vince needs to be on the other, and he needs to be made to see the gravity of the situation.