WWE News: Speculation Within the Company About Major Upcoming Angle at Raw 1000

Last month, reports emerged that Vince McMahon was placing pressure on his booking team to come up with a spectacular summer angle that would serve to shake-up and rejuvenate the stale WWE product. 

Per these claims, the WWE owner was keen for a game-changing storyline in the vein of 2010's Nexus invasion storyline and 2011's Summer of Punk.

(Both angles were huge successes short term, but, as McMahon may be forgetting, floundered in the long term due mainly to muddled and erratic booking. Despite their superior numbers, Nexus was no match for John Cena who often took them all out single-handedly. In a ridiculous turnaround, Punk went from being an anti-authority rebel to siding with management over the roster walkout.)  

As sites like Wrestlezone have already noted, Dave Meltzer reports in this week's (subscribers-only) Wrestling Observer Newsletter, speculation is currently running rampant within WWE that the major angle, whatever it is, will happen on next week's episode of WWE's flagship show.

Talking about Raw 1000, Meltzer writes:

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The suspicion is the “big angle” that Vince was wanting, similar to the Nexus and Punk angles of the last two years, would be on that show, at the end.

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He goes on to note that this would be a shrewd move from the company, considering the amount of people that will be watching the heavily promoted show: 

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As far as shooting the big angle for the summer, it makes sense, since in theory, the final segment of the show should be the largest audience at any one time watching any WWE telecast in months, if not all year.

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Meltzer is correct in saying that, simply in terms of having a ton of new viewers, next week will be the best opportunity to kick off a major angle. 

However, with numerous returns, guest appearances, a WWE Championship match and a wedding, next week's Raw is scheduled to be one of the most heavily-stacked and must-see shows in history.

Let's just hope that this surprise angle, assuming it is happening, doesn't get lost in the shuffle.