The Social Media Saturday topic on Chair Shot Reality looks at what one thing would you change about Monday Night RAW if given the chance? Many tweets came in using #WZCSR while Justin LaBar and Josh Isenberg gave some interesting analysis to the show.
Shane Shoemaker wrote a new blog on CSRWrestling.com where he looks in part 1 of his analysis about problems with RAW. Here’s a sample:
Cookie Cut, Lack of Creativity
How many times have you predicted the opening of Raw? In this past Mondays’ Raw, there was an exception, but most of the time you’re opening up with a long-winded promo from The Authority and/or Seth Rollins. From there you probably move onto a couple backstage segments with The Authority and Seth Rollins. There’s no sense of urgency on the show; the show feels too smooth at times. It’s as if there is cookie cut blueprint of the show every week and they just fill in the spaces accordingly. I’m not suggesting Attitude Era-like antics, but the show could use some sort of chaos. But it needs to be creative, it needs to have some sort of depth and meaning. Creative chaos can be good. All the ingredients are there, but they need to be shaken up.Booking – Questionable, 50/50, Lazy
One week Cesaro looks like a million bucks, going bell-to-bell with John Cena. The next week and weeks after, he’s jobbing to anyone and everyone for no real explanation. The creative ball has been dropped on Cesaro too many times now.50/50 booking: Jim Ross talks about this one a lot on his podcast. This was happening a lot in the divas division after there became three separate teams. They just continued to split victories between the nine of them each and every week. Who got over? Who was dominating? There’s times to win and lose, and they’re both meaningful, and they can both get you over, if in the right manner. But, like in most matches — what are you fighting for? Emphasis of the match and a meaning of winning and losing looks lost.
Lazy booking. How many six-man tag team matches can there be? Is it an attempt to get everyone on the show, because even that doesn’t happen. Where was Sheamus this week? Is it an attempt to build up the pay-per-view show by having multiple superstars in one match? Sometimes that’s ok, but not every single week. It’s lazy booking to start with a singles match and either the heel gets himself disqualified or has a run-in by his partners or someone associated in a feud with the babyface. It’s lazy and sickly predictable.
On Monday, be sure you read the second part of this blog: The Problems With RAW – Part 2 – The Fix. I’ll bring up such things as what WWE should bring back and also what should be added to help not only Raw, but the overall WWE product.
CLICK HERE to read the other issues Shane mentions as problems.
