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WWE has spent many months bringing its weekly shows to us via the WWE ThunderDome, a virtual audience presented by a number of screens with fans watching from home being displayed on them, making it look like they're right there in the audience.
This was a quick fix in response to the pandemic leading everyone to quarantine with the view to solving the big problem caused by a lack of atmosphere with no live audience. For the most part, confined within the unique situation that created it, the ThunderDome has been a success.
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However, the last ever Monday Night RAW to take place at ThunderDome is tonight with WWE pretaping the show ahead of preparations to get back on the road and bring back live crowds. Consequently, this marks the end of an era for WWE's ThunderDome and the company should underline this by going out with a bang.
Here are five ways WWE can send off the ThunderDome with a bang on tonight's RAW
#5. End tonight's WWE Monday Night RAW with a highlight package of the pandemic era playing across the ThunderDome screens
We saw Cody Rhodes introduce an amazing tribute video showcasing AEW's programming throughout the pandemic era and all of the awesome and heartbreaking moments that had taken place during it. It was emotional, thrilling and brilliant in equal measure.
So WWE should absolutely unequivocally copy that and put on their own tribute video to all of their big moments that took place during the pandemic era. Because that's one thing WWE can do, and do really well.
Plus WWE's ThunderDome allows them to put on a video package in a unique and exciting way that AEW couldn't. They can broadcast a whole image across all of the screens or they can focus on individual screens and move along/up/down to the next thing. Essentially WWE could use the ThunderDome to choreograph a really great tribute video.
#4. Ricochet and Jon Morrison should be involved in a crazy spot from the top row of WWE ThunderDome screens on tonight's RAW
Ricochet and John Morrison are two of the eight men taking part in the WWE Men's Money in the Bank Ladder match and ever since they were announced for the match they've been in a rivalry with each other.
Given that Ricochet is one of the best high flying wrestlers in the world and John Morrison's nickname is literally The Prince Of Parkour, it's no surprise the two men have been impressing the WWE Universe with their death-defying aerial manouvres.
Their first bout ended in a double count out when John Morrison sat on the ringside barrier and Ricochet threw himself from the top rope, across the entirety of the ringside, and took Morrison out. It was an immensely cool spot (even if it was obvious they both landed on a crash mat)
Now the two men are facing off in a Falls Count Anywhere match which means they can take their high flying antics, well, anywhere! That means they're almost certainly going to do something breathtakingly cool and jaw-dropping and I wouldn't be surprised if it involved one or both men throwing themselves off the top of the ThunderDrome.
#3. RAW's Money In The Bank competitors brawl through WWE's ThunderDome destroying it and each other in the process
WWE's Money in the Bank pay-per-view is this weekend which means that tonight's RAW is the go-home show for the red brand before that pay-per-view. It's also, as mentioned, the last episode of WWE to take place in the ThunderDome.
This gives WWE the unique opportunity to really do something incredible to promote the upcoming Money in the Bank pay-per-view by capitalizing on the fact they'll likely never need the ThunderDome screens again.
Is that the best way to do that? Have the RAW Superstars that were announced for the match begin a brawl to close the show. This ordinarily wouldn't be unique or amazing because WWE likes to do brawls often. However, they could have Ricochet, Morrison, Riddle and Drew McIntyre go absolutely awol.
You can close tonight's Monday Night RAW by having the four Superstars throw each other through as many ThunderDome screens as you possibly can. Have their brawl become the most destructive brawl in the history of WWE.
That'll truly get the crowd buzzing for Sunday.
#2. The Fiend Bray Wyatt returns and burns WWE ThunderDome down with his spooky powers
In case you can't tell, I'm having a lot of fun coming up with wacky and wonderful scenarios for WWE to say goodbye to the ThunderDome era with a bang and the next suggestion is as wacky and wonderful as they come.
We've all been waiting for The Fiend Bray Wyatt to return and show us what he's going to do next, especially after losing the 'you set me on fire' revenge match against Randy Orton at WrestleMania thanks to the betrayal of Alexa Bliss.
What if The Fiend returns with an unstoppable burning vengeance? What if he shows up at the end of RAW and uses the very thing that Randy Orton used against him, fire, to wreak havoc on the set and burn the ThunderDome down with his wrath?
A homicidal, magical, fire-controlling Fiend with a ruthless streak is exactly the kind of Fiend I want to see and that's exactly how WWE should redebut the character, making the most of the defunk ThunderDome set in the process.
#1. The SmackDown hacker returns to WWE at Monday Night RAW and takes over the ThunderDome (but is it Mustafa Ali?)
WWE has many storylines that are introduced only to fizzle out or to just be suddenly and unexpectedly dropped without explanation. The worst of which in recent memory was the SmackDown hacker storyline that had people genuinely interested in seeing what would happen, only for WWE to forget it existed.
Sure, they'd eventually 'wrap' it up by having newly revealed RETRIBUTION leader Mustafa Ali reveal he was the anonymous SmackDown hacker who had been threatening other Superstars on WWE's roster and exposed Dolph Ziggler and Sonya Deville's deceit.
But WWE are never going to have more screens in their arena as they will tonight on Monday Night RAW for the last time, and it's almost a massive shame that we never got to see a really cool hacking sequence with the SmackDown hacker taking over each screen one-by-one until all that was left were images of them. (Yes, I know WWE did this with Bayley, but they can do it again)
But it's not too late for WWE. If you can reveal that Mustafa Ali lied about being the hacker, you could bring the gimmick back and have someone else ultimately revealed as the SmackDown hacker and you can bring the WWE Universe the awesome hacking sequence they want to see.
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