Believability: What Monday Night Raw Is Lacking

Jared Farver by Correspondent Written on August 06, 2009
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The WWE has been making great strides toward providing a better product overall. Despite this, there are still some things they could improve upon, like the believability of the product.

 

The WWE will never be perfect, just like you and I will never attain perfection, but why shouldn’t the WWE strive for it?

 

It seems to me—and I’m sure many others feel the same way—that Vince has lost sight of what wrestling truly is. I know the “E” in WWE stands for entertainment, but the most entertaining part of a wrestling company and show should be its wrestling!

 

Instead, it feels as if Vince is more concerned with money, media, and quick, dumb segments.

 

I feel he is forgetting that good wrestling is truly what the WWE Universe deserves, and more importantly, what it wants.

 

Monday Night Raw feels more like a variety show than a wrestling show ever since the celebrity guest host has been introduced. I feel that Raw’s celebrity guest host takes away the believability of the show.

 

The addition also makes Raw look like a traveling circus, traveling from town to town with its freaks not too far behind. Just watch the first 13 minutes of Raw, where you will witness Jeremy Piven and his good friend Dr. Ken parade around the ring like complete idiots.

 

Not only are we supposed to believe the likes of Shaquille O’Neal, Seth Green, and Jeremy Piven make the matches, but we have to endure the silly “comedic” segments revolving around the host and Santino/Hornswoggle in skits between matches. 

 

Did any of you find the Hornswoggle/Michael Cole/Shaq segment funny at all?

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