10 Mistakes WWE Made On Raw This Week (6 May 2019)

#4 "Fantastic" Filler

Just isn't enough to excite fans.

Three hours is a lot of time in someone's day, as just think about all the things you wanted to do in a day, and then when the day is finally over, you kind of regret not making time for that specific thing. So imagine watching Raw for three hours hoping and praying that WWE gives you something worth your time only to witness professional wrestlers roll around on the floor, repetitive tag team matches, monotonous promos that don't accomplish anything, and people being thrown into the garbage.

This type of blatant filler makes you question why do you even put up with this type of content every single week, and there are a lot of people out there who will tell you if you don't like it then stop watching. But this one quote from a wrestling fan sums up why that isn't possible, as this fan said "people watch Raw at this point because it's a habit and not for the content", and if there was ever a sentence to explain why it's hard for certain fans to just give up on the WWE, then it's that line.

However, with ratings going lower each week, it seems like some fans may have checked out, and with filler like what we saw on Raw this week, it's starting to create a reason for that phenomenon. Who wants to see The Lucha House Party (an excellent group of wrestlers that are unfortunately jobbers) beat another group of jobbers in a two-minute squash match?

This is the problem with Raw's three-hour runtime, as WWE just does not have three hours worth of good stories to tell within that time frame. Most would say they don't have an hour of good storytelling offer, but mistakes are made when fans don't care about what they are seeing in the ring, and on Raw this week, the filler was just not worth the concern.