WWE: Why the Walkout Angle on Raw Ended Too Soon

Last night, we saw the result of the WWE superstars walkout from last week. Vince McMahon returned to inform Triple H he was no longer the leader of Raw, and that the board had put John Laryngitis in his place to lead.

The night started off with promise. Triple H appeared in a completely empty backstage area before making his way to the ring. The lack of personnel made the show feel like he really was all alone. After coming out and doing the typical “I will not be intimidated” speech that people give when backed into a corner, he was joined by some of the people who were absent during the walkout.

John Cena showed up first ans gave his typical boy scout rant about loving what he does and never leaving his fans. Sheamus came out and told Triple H that he respected how he handled getting hit in the head with a pipe by giving him the biggest arse-whooping of his life instead of going through lawyers.

CM Punk was the last to come out and show support. He acknowledged how unlikely an ally he was for Triple H but that when he left he it was because his contract had expired and he was making a statement, while as the guys in the parking lot were letting the fans down.

Triple H proceeded to make lemonade out of oranges by making a match between Sheamus and Cena. The best part, though, was when he walked over to Punk, put his arm around his shoulder and told him there was an empty announce booth waiting for him to drop pipe bombs. After being told he could wear Triple H's blazer while on commentary, he cheerfully jumped to the floor and put on a headset.

This made me miss the days of Punk doing commentary on Smackdown. After the first commercial is where I feel the WWE went downhill with the angle. I think they missed a great opportunity to capitalize on many real-life current events by tying them into the walkout.

Some superstars had related the walkout to the Wall Street situation going on, and they could have incorporated that into the show with some social commentary to make it somewhat funny and relevant. Let's not forget the two major lockouts that came this year in professional sports—why would they not have made this out to be a similar situation with the WWE superstars?

I understand that a show with only four wrestlers would not work, but there are other ways they could have stretched this out without actually bringing everyone back right away. Triple H could have brought in some legends to fill the cards between now and Vengeance.

Let's not forget that many of these guys who work in the back for WWE as agents and producers can still go in the ring and fight. Golddust could have donned his spandex and gone in to face off against Billy Kidman, or the newly hired BG James could have reignited his Road Dogg gimmick and come out to face Roddy Piper. Hell, even Bob Backlund could have come in and faced someone.

There was more longevity to this storyline, which is strange to say because usually complaints revolve around storylines going for too long. The next PPV is only two weeks away; they easily could have put together shows based around a WWE lockout until then. It would have made for very original and unpredictable WWE TV.

John Morrison has been making comments on Twitter about WWE needing to offer health insurance; they could have tied that into part of the unsafe work environment claims.

What also gets me is that Triple H failed to mention that the very people making it unsafe were out on the picket line. Guys like Mark Henry, who have put people on the shelf, are the ones that had been making things unsafe, and they just brushed over that fact.

I am not saying the story they are going with is going to be bad, but I am saying I think they dropped the ball a little bit by not continuing a little further with this.