Would WWE benefit from being a tad more chaotic?

[Spearmint*]

Reading over the script from an episode of Monday Night Raw from 2000, (seen in this thread right here on FAN! *cheap pop*) had me thinking about what was so great about that period in WWE history and what this current era seems to lack.

Now on that particular episode, in that remarkably successful period in WWE history, there was A LOT going on. You had a first blood match, a tag titles ladder match and a inter-running angle across the whole show - involving several brawls/interviews and a run in on the main event all in one episode of Raw. Now in Current WWE you'd be lucky to see any of that across a single month, let alone a single episode of Raw.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not crying out for "OMGZ bring BCK TEH ATTITUDE ERA GUYZ", I'm just thinking that a break from the very slickly produced three hour show that Monday Night Raw is,(you know the sort, Opening20minPromo-Singles match-*plug WWE app*-backstage interview-singles match-reply of first promo-mainEvent) might just benefit WWE.

I mean just look at the recent reaction to the last segment on Raw this week, everyone seems to have really liked the chaos that surrounded the ending brawl on Raw. It was nice to see characters interact outside of their selected feuds, it was nice to see some continuity referenced and overall it was great to feel on the edge of your seat and that you couldn't simply close your eyes and guess your way until the end.

As a side point I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, if WWE was a bit more loose with their big gimmick matches and didn't just save them for marquee PPVs ("Hell In A Cell, TLC, Elimination Chamber etc) and maybe if WWE would let more angles run across entire shows and interrupt all sorts of normal mundane moments; we'd get an more overall enjoyable product.

I'm not saying abandon all hope on WWE-PG, I'm not saying scrap all elements of the RAW-PG/HD-"Universe Era", and I'm not suggesting Hell in A Cells on every Raw and the return of "garbage wrestling" - I'm simply suggesting and asking you; do you think an overall more erratic/chaos/unpredictable show would make for a more entertaining three hours of Wrestling on a Monday Night?

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[Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift]

Yes, definitely.

[mrjl]

not at all. That was just remnants of Crash TV and the constant stuff happening is why things get so rushed through. It leads to fifty-fifty booking because if people don't trade wins they have very little reason to keep fighting each other, which is another hated thing. And if a gimmick match is to important to save for a specific PPV it should also be to important for a random Raw

[Deleted]

Definitely, and IMO, there is a big difference between Crash TV and just not knowing exactly where something is going, turn by turn, several months ahead of time.

And that's just it - my biggest issue with WWE is that anyone who watches their programming, if they really thought about it, could easily sit down and write out at least a month of Raw episodes, point-by-point, with +90% accuracy.

[Zombie Mod]

chaotic? no, less predictable yes.

[Perd]

What if it was more Professor Chaotic?

[SEAN CARLESS]

It should change its current formula. It's dated, cliche and predictable. No more long opening promos. It's meandering bullshit. And switch out the order of important happenings (instead of top of the hour which every casual has figured out) so people are FORCED to sit through entire shows or risk missing the water cooler moments.

[Chip]

They try to be but given the seeming creative limits of the writing staff (or whatever it is Vince let's through) them trying to be "chaotic" is shaking a Magic 8 Ball to decide the finish to RAW.

[Bo Rida]

There was a time they made a big deal about the fact "anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation".
And while it was a marketing line it was true, when you tuned in you didn't know if you'd get HHH vs Y2J in a title match to start the show or Mae Young giving birth to a hand and that unpredictable nature framed everything you watched.

It's not so much that they would have to do something crazy or chaotic every week they just have to give the impression that something unexpected COULD happen.

To be fair they are slowly heading in that direction, The Shield vs Wyatts showdown was another unexpected mark out moment where it was impossible to predict what would happen.

[Professor Chaos]

I loved that brief bit where RAW was anarchy. That segment where Batista was warming up backstage and a fan ran in and did his entrance dance before being chased by security was the greatest thing I've ever seen.

[Starshine]

They should hire Grant Morrison so he can put in some silver age continuity into the show. Also John Cena is now addicted to weapons grade crystal meth, and Randy Orton runs around with a jock strap on his had and calls himself the Viper of Mon-To-Ya.

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[Allie Kitsune]

Of course it should.

Remember how excited people were for the "Martial Law" gimmick that ended up not going anywhere after Regal got wellness'd?

[Hit Girl]

No, if anything, the 2000 script shows a solid structure and purpose to segments and matches.

WWE would benefit from being more logical. For the last decade, it's struck me as being booked on the fly, with no long term commitment to pushes and storylines.

[Deleted]

If Raw was like the final 10 min we saw this week everyweek we may as well rename the Raw threads to the Bizzaro times because it would be the most positive Raw threads in history.

And it absoloutley sucks it takes this type of situation for them to give us that type of booking.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

This forum's general opinion seems to be that the Raw Is Anarchy period was one of the greatest times for Raw since the Attitude Era.

It's not even chaos, it's like someone else said - a lack of predictability makes things more entertaining. That last segment had a real feel of things not going to plan, and I think would've done regardless of the fans turning on it, because they were popping something fierce for the closing trades of blows between different guys.

[Kayfabe FAN don't want none]

I vote no confidence.