If you’re having creative problems, I feel bad for you, son. RAW’s got 99 problems and here’s all of them…
1. Ratings
See I told you that was one!
2. 20 minute Authority promos
I am the game…ehh…and for some reason….ehh…I have opened every RAW…ehh…for the past 15 years….ehh.
3. In NXT you were great and now you’re just kinda ‘meh’.
Tyler Breeze we used to love you but now you’ve broken the land speed record. 0 to midcard in three matches. Former NXT Champion Bo Dallas, where are you? At least Neville is on TV. Not that he’s being used much better. Don’t even get me started on The Ascension.
4. We just did that match on PPV last night. Let’s do it again!
Why the hell not?
5. Midcard city, bitch!
Ziggler, Miz, Barrett, Rusev, Owens, Del Rio, Harper, Cesaro, Rusev – the list goes on and on. None of them booked like championship material.
6. Let’s put the belt on a guy who loses all the time!
As Tony Schiavone would say "that’ll put the butts on the seats!"
7. Giving Jack Swagger a live microphone
He makes Roman Reigns’ promos look like CM Punk’s in comparison.
8. So we got this new heel faction that we need to build as a dominant threat, what should we do?
Have them get beaten down by Roman Reigns, of course!
9. Submissions are even more deadly when you do them on announce tables!
Said no one ever (except Michael Cole).
10. Alberto Del….ZZZZZZZZZ
Oh sorry, was that a Del Rio segment? I must have slept through it.
11. I just got jobbed out by part-timers at a PPV
I’ll just win a match on RAW and then that will all be forgotten.
12. We’ve booked a match between two amazingly talented women
Let’s give it a screwy roll-up finish and barely any time at all.
13. She’s the daughter of a really famous wrestler
We should remind people of this constantly in case they forget.
14. This show is three hours long
Does this count as a form of torture?
15. Hey this guy has been off for ages
Let’s bring them back with little to no build-up and make them irrelevant in three weeks.
16. There’s this really talented dude, shall we push him?
Don’t be stupid!
17. Michael Cole on commentary
Is that Fish tank here yet?
18. JBL on commentary
Maggle, Maggle, Maggle, Maggle, he’s twerking Maggle etc. etc.
19. Byron Saxton on commentary
He’s only good when he’s got Corey Graves to carry him.
20. No Rich Brennan or Corey Graves on commentary
That would make the show at least 10 times better.
21. This show is not NXT
That makes me a sad panda.
22. This show is not Lucha Underground
Triple H has got nothing on Dario Cueto.
23. Your top babyface is booed by half your audience
Unless they are just chanting "Boolieve that!"
24. Cesaro injured
Just when it was getting good for him too!
25. Bryan still injured
How much better would the show be with the leader of the YES! Movement?
26. No John Cena
I can’t believe I’m saying this but I really miss the living, breathing, memeing, face that runs the place at the minute. Especially with the lack of Open Challenge.
27. No Brock Lesnar
Vince needs to make sure those wheelbarrows of cash are getting to him.
28. No Rollinator
I just want Rollins there so the New Day can rock out to his theme music.
29. No Batista/Bluetista
Guess we’re gonna have to Deal with it!
30. Lack of Sandow
RAW is in desperate need of some intellectual saving and someone who can cut a good promo.
31. #whereisaxel
We need more Cold Beer in our lives.
32. Broke one guitar
Never drew a dime! Even Ryback wouldn’t sell it.
33. I’m in the midst of a really personal rivalry
I best work the leg of my arch nemesis.
34. Xenophobia considered a good thing
Why can’t you just be a Xenophobic American like you used to be, Zeb?
35. That’s a nice main event match you’re having
It’d be a shame if it had to end by disqualification.
36. The Wyatt Family – the new Dungeon of Doom
Bray my son! Your faction will be made to look like fools at every possible turn!
37. Hey remember those three weeks last year when Dolph Ziggler was a big deal?
Creative certainly don’t.
38. How do we spice up yet another contract signing?
Just bring up your opponent’s dead brother without the family’s permission.
39. Contract signings
Everyone loves watching people fill out paperwork!
40. The Authority
Because there’s no other way to make matches other than making non-wrestlers the most important part of the show.
41. We did this match last week on RAW
Let’s do it again!
42. We did this match last week on Smackdown
Let’s do it again! No one watches Smackdown.
43. No one cares about the Dudley Boyz
D’VON! GET THE RELEVANCY!
44. We’ve only got one week until the PPV
We don’t need to book any matches for it.
45. NFL Season
No one watches Football. That’s why the XFL failed! If only that were true.
46. Heatless heel champion
Sheamus has all the heat of a standard refrigerator.
47. No heel has the level of heat Eva Marie has in NXT
They should put her against Roman Reigns. That’ll get him over as a babyface!
48. No babyface has the love Bayley has in NXT
It’s like that brand knows how to book the good guys or something.
49. The old guard don’t move the needle anymore
Just because you’ve got Shawn Michaels out there in his jeans and cowboy boots doesn’t mean anyone else is going to tune in.
50. So many cowardly heel champions
Orton, Rollins, Sheamus. How about giving us something different from our champion?
51. Tag Team merry-go-round
Deciding who the number one contenders or the champions are is like a big game of "pass the parcel".
52. No more than one tag feud at a time
God forbid that they’d build a whole division!
53. Calling the women ‘Divas’
Google defines Diva as "a famous female singer" or "a woman regarded as temperamental or haughty." Women wrestlers don’t fall under either category.
54. Pointless matches
Two people get in the ring and fight just because there’s 15 minutes to fill.
55. The theme music
"Tonight is the Night" pales in comparison to "Thorn in Your Eye".
56. This is a PG product
Best not make it entertaining to adults who actually buy the Network and the merchandise. It’s not like that’s actually possible with a PG product (cough…Pixar…cough).
57. These RAW Fallout videos are great
So they definitely won’t be on the actual show.
58. The character of Kane is really stale
Why don’t we put him in the main event?
59. The character of Big Show is really stale
Let’s put him in the main event!
60. UK Fans being censored
Why not annoy one of your most loyal audiences by muting their reactions on RAW?
61. This happened in real life
Lets work it into an angle even if it’s bound to work out badly.
62. I just kidnapped someone
Yet they escaped, came back and kicked my ass with no explanation!
63. Storylines on social media
50 times better than the storylines on the actual show.
64. This week we need a name for a new faction of women
Better name it after a porn site.
65. Let’s use this match
To promote this reality show/awful band/Mountain Dew/WWE Network.
66. We should plug the Network
To remind people how good this show used to be.
67. When the show starts to feel like WCW circa 2000
And you wonder whether you’ve rather be watching that Russo-led car crash.
68. When the show starts ripping off TNA
And they’re using the bad angles
69. Hey we’ve brought back that really over guy from WCW
Now watch us bury him because after all these years, we’re still bitter.
70. Triple H always needs a ‘guy’
But I thought he was happily married?
71. Making Dean Ambrose a third wheel
Alright Dean. You’ve had a little tournament push. Now sit back down in the midcard where you belong!
72. Scripted promos
They sound about as natural as alien life forms.
73. Roman Reigns Championship pains
It’s blatantly obvious they want to give him the belt so just get it over with already!
74. Video games based around the Attitude Era
Because even the makers know it’s so much better than the current product.
75. Constantly talking about Ronda Rousey
To remind us how much better UFC is than WWE.
76. Kevin Owens
Not being World Champion instead of Sheamus.
77. The New Day not having all the belts
That’s booty!
78. Doing a tournament
That includes random entrants like Kalisto and Titus O’Neil.
79. Pretending a feud that just happened didn’t exist
Then bringing it back at a later date.
80. Making Randy Orton so irrelevant
No one has even noticed he’s out injured.
81. Doing weird commercials for fast food
And getting talent to act in it.
82. When you book a guy like an underdog
And he is the prototype WWE babyface who is constantly booked strong.
83. When even Mick Foley thinks about not watching
And he used to do this for a living.
84. Get a celebrity to guest host RAW
Give that celebrity a bigger role than most of the roster.
85. Ryback
One week booked like the next world champion, next week booked like Heath Slater. Where’s the consistency?
86. You just won the Money in the Bank match/King of the Ring tournament/Intercontinental Title
You’re definitely not winning tonight then!
87. You know what this demonic faction needs?
Some BigAss McStrongman with limited movement in the ring.
88. Only watching the highlights of RAW on YouTube
And realising that even they suck.
89. Having Del Rio win
With rubbish transition moves instead of finishers. Or just him winning in general.
90. Babyfaces being too happy
About losing the night before or in the midst of a blood feud with a rival.
91. Competitors in title matches who make sure their opponent gets counted out
When they are the CHALLENGER to the belt.
92. Post-streak Undertaker
Really what’s the point of him being there when you’ve taken away his biggest draw point?
93. Corporate/Demon/Concessions Kane
Too many gimmicks in too little time.
94. Rusev and Lana
No longer a thing and both ruined as acts due an awful angle.
95. Feuds that go past their sell-by date
By the sixth time they’ve faced off on RAW, I’m more than done with a feud.
96. Taking a comedy midcard team
And making one of them champion and it’s not a member of the New Day.
97. When the only time the mainstream talk about the show
Is when it’s rumoured to be targeted by terrorists.
98. Not taking an off-season
At the expense of the product’s quality and the talent’s health.
99. When you wonder – why am I still watching this?
Sometimes it feels like a habit you just can’t kick. No matter how bad it is.
So there’s 99 problems with RAW and to a certain extent the WWE at the moment. Can you think of anymore Cagesiders?
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