Russo says that WWE is current writing RAW and Smackdown for 3 groups of fans. One group is the marks – the guys who are chanting Rusev Day, for example. The other two groups are kids, and the kids’ parents who are forced to bring them to these shows. If you don’t fall in one of these three groups, the show is simply unbearable.
Lane thinks it’s stupid that we’re seeing individual performers declaring their entrance into the Royal Rumble. It’s obvious that these guys are going to be in the Rumble match, so he just thinks it’s a waste of time having them declare this on RAW or Smackdown.
Russo points out that these performers shouldn’t be able to declare themselves as entrants into the Rumble match. This is an executive decision that should be coming from Daniel Bryan or Shane McMahon, but WWE is lacking creativity so the performers are booking the shows for the majority of the time.
Russo continues by saying that back in the day RAW and Smackdown were thinking men’s shows, but nowadays it’s an idiot’s show. Lane agrees and says he hates how WWE continues to defeat and devalue their Champions in non-Title matches. We saw this again this week when Kevin Owens defeated A.J. Styles in a non-Title match, and it just proves that it doesn’t mean anything to be WWE Champion.
That sums up today’s episode of Vince Russo’s The Brand. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya tomorrow for another recap!
