Russo mentions that some dirt sheet writers appeared to like Samoa Joe’s opening promo on RAW but he and Lane thought it was “long and boring”. He also says that Seth Rollins’ punches are embarrassing most of the time, and that’s just unacceptable from someone who’s widely considered to be one of the best workers in the world.
Russo hated that only a couple of weeks after Absolution’s debut, their heat was completely swept away by having the entire RAW roster beat them up and embarrass them this week. He adds that the Riott Squad suffered a similar fate on Smackdown Live this week, and he thinks that’s simply terrible writing on both shows.
Russo loved the debut of “Woken” Matt Hardy two weeks ago, but he hated that WWE failed to advance the storyline this week. They simply shot the exact same promo segment for the second week in a row, and this doesn’t give Russo much hope that WWE will ever figure out how to write effectively for the “Woken” Hardy character.
He mentions that the Kane/Braun Strowman storyline is a complete waste of time because we all know who’s going to emerge victorious in the end. Lane mentions that predictability has been a problem in a lot of WWE’s matches lately. On this episode of RAW for example, we all knew Reigns was going to be Cesaro and Finn Balor was going to beat Curtis Axel.
