After record low ratings and fan apathy, Raw had gotten so shitty that it actually forced WWE to acknowledge it on air and do something about it. A few weeks ago Seth Rollins cut a semi-shoot promo about how Raw sucks, and then last week they did what they always do when "it's time to shake things up again": cart out Vince McMachon.
Except this time they went a step further and brought out not only Vince but the entire McMachon family (minus Linda because she works in the fucking White House). The four of them actually cut a promo saying:
- "we are not listening to our audience"
- "we've been suffocating our superstars"
- The four of them will be "taking back" Raw and Smackdown (not clear from whom exactly they will be doing said taking-back, because do they not run the place already anyway? But Baron Corbin and Paige are no longer the GMs of Raw and Smackdown. So there's that.)
- They are going to listen to us and give us something new and fresh.
- There will be new superstars and new matches happening. (They have announced several NXT callups including EC3)
So what do you guys make of this? I don't think I've ever seen WWE acknowledge the staleness of their product to this extent. Considering that things usually always suck more than usual around this time of year until the Rumble kicks in and the writers almost wake up. But I guess record low ratings are ratings, and if things are bad enough that they felt the need to cut a promo like this, then things are bad.
Of course, I don't expect any meaningful changes to actually take place and this is likely nothing more than an emtpy statement to placate fans until Wrestlemania season. But hey, at least things won't suck as bad as they have the last few months, right?