How WWE RAW Should Have Ended – 03/28/16
The 03/28/16 edition of WWE Raw ended with an anti-climactic pull-apart brawl between Triple H and Roman Reigns. Oli Davis thinks he can do better with some OUTLANDISH FANTASY BOOKING! …after all, this is meant to be the go-home show for Wrestlemania 32.
This week’s Raw was the go-home show, the last WWE Raw before Wrestlemania. The final image we’re left with should be the hard sell of the company’s biggest ever show. So what did we get?
We got Triple H and Roman Reigns brawling, for a bunch of heels – like the League of Nations, the Dudleys and Stardust – and faces – like The Usos and Dolph Ziggler – running out to help the bad and good guy respectively. It all feels like it’s all building to something bigger, but…nothing, they just get pulled apart and have the standard homoerotic staredown as WWE Raw goes off air. Here’s how WWE Raw should have ended…
For all of this, just keep in the back of your mind that the final image of the go-home show for any pay per view, should be your ultimate advert.
So the heels are down helping out Triple H, for the Usos to run down for the save. Here’s where we’re going to change things. Rather than anyone not called Triple H or Roman Reigns getting lost in the shuffle, The Usos would help Reigns for a bit, but then the camera would follow them as they directly target the Dudleys. That’s who they’ve been feuding with for the last month. All of a sudden, you have two bits of action to cut between, the Reigns/Triple H brawl, and the Usos fighting the Dudleys. The chaos level is taken up a notch.
With the Usos occupied, Triple H and the League of Nations get the better of Reigns again. Until the New Day run out, who go straight after Alberto del Rio, Sheamus and company. All these entrances, by the way, don’t have ring music. This should feel as organic as possible, and having Kevin Dunn poised by the play button of his iTunes WWE account doesn’t exactly scream ‘natural’.
Vince McMahon and Stephanie strut down to the ring and start barking out orders to the lower card heels. They’ve got Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho with them, who act as generals in this wrestling skirmish. Almost immediately after Owens and Jericho get involved, Sami Zayn and AJ Styles run down to fight their respective Wrestlemania opponents.
Before you know it, Dolph Ziggler and Sin Cara are taking on The Miz and Stardust, Ryback is chasing Kalisto around the ring, Kane and The Big Show are being taken out by the Social Outcasts. And, in between all of these individual feuds, Triple H and Roman Reigns hammer away at each other in the middle of the ring, with Vince and Stephanie barking orders from the side. The heels slowly start to get the better of the faces.
And now’s when we play the entrance music. Here comes the money.
Shane McMahon runs down to the ring to throw some awful punches at Stardust, Wade Barrett and Bo Dallas. The ring divides into two, directly down the hard camera shot. The babyfaces are on one side, with Shane McMahon and Roman Reigns at the front, with the heels on the other, headed by Triple H, Stephanie and Vince.
Now you have almost every Wrestlemania match at boiling point for Raw’s final segment, and it ties them all into a larger, overarching story – Shane fighting for control of WWE Raw.
But there’s one more player to add.
The ring full of wrestlers are screaming at each other, it’s classic good guys against bad guys, Shane vs Vince, Triple H vs Roman Reigns. The crowd are going crazy, making the hard cam shake with all the jumping up and down. The tension can’t get any higher…and then the lights go out.
Dong.
When they come back up, Undertaker is right in the middle of the ring between the two sides, a visual metaphor for how he’s caught in the father/son feud between Vince and Shane. Who will he really fight for at Wrestlemania 32 on Sunday? I don’t know, but, done this way, I’m definitely going to watch to find out.
What do you think about how WWE Raw should’ve ended this week? What would you have done to sell Wrestlemania? Let us know in the comments.
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