John Laurinaitis Fired: WWE Must Get Rid of Pointless GM Gimmick

The end of the John Laurinaitis regime in WWE, at least for now, must give the creative team a chance to realize that Raw and SmackDown are better and more entertaining without the general manager gimmick. 

No Way Out was a microcosm of everything that happened during Laurinaitis' reign. The match between John Cena and Big Show was pedestrian at best. Cena won, albeit in controversial fashion, and Vince McMahon unceremoniously fired Laurinaitis before Cena gave Laurinaitis an Attitude Adjustment through a table. 

While the ending was fairly grandiose, everything that came before it basically summed up Raw under Laurinaitis: mediocre. 

To be fair to Laurinaitis, none of the general managers that WWE has tried to use in the last five years has worked. Even when Triple H had his run as COO last year, he was made to look like an idiot who had no idea what he was doing. 

The whole general manager concept is so played out and serves virtually no purpose anymore, besides serving as a plot hurdle for the top stars. 

Since McMahon created probably the most successful angle in wrestling history by battling Steve Austin for three years, he has been so desperate to prove that it can work with anyone in any situation. That is why people like Laurinaitis, who are not good performers and have no charisma or qualities, have failed in this role.

WWE thinks anyone can do these things, yet it doesn't take into account the fact that Austin and McMahon were really, really, really great performers. 

You don't need a general manager or an authority figure to make matches or act as a foil for someone like Cena or CM Punk. Wrestling matches have been getting made for years without a person like that. 

Eliminating the general manager role will provide an instant increase in the quality of programming that WWE puts out every Monday and Friday. It is a meaningless title that serves no other purpose than to make McMahon chuckle behind the scenes. 

Laurinaitis' firing should be the end of this sad, pathetic GM era in WWE. It is time to start letting the wrestlers tell the stories and keep everyone else away from the screen. 

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