5 productive things WWE can do while on a "hiatus"

Stone Cold Steve Austin and Becky Lynch in an empty arena

#3. Put more planning into future stories/events

The Otis-Mandy-Dolph story is one of the few very that have had weeks of build-up

One of the greatest/worst things about running a wrestling promotion is the ability to/necessity of having to book things on the fly. While WWE is able to switch around storylines and booking plans on a whim based on audience reaction, they can also find themselves having to make quick adjustments based on sudden injuries or "personal issues" (i.e. Wellness Policy violations).

Plus, when you have this much weekly content to produce, laying out a solid roadmap for a story gets kind of difficult. That's part of the reason you don't see a lot of long-term booking these days - there's almost always a monkey wrench getting thrown in there.

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But, imagine if WWE had three, maybe even four, weeks of planning time. A month where they could be sure their performers wouldn't get injured or getting in trouble because they were all literally sitting at home? That's even plenty of time to think of contingency plans in case something does go wrong during an angle.

To paraphrase Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, "think of all you could do with four or five weeks of clean streets."

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Kevin Christopher Sullivan has been writing online professionally since 1999, which makes him probably older than you. He's written for sites such as Uproxx and Austin.com. He's also performed stand-up comedy, attended Butt-Numb-A-Thon and E3, and owns some pretty cool t-shirts. He lives outside of Austin, TX with his wife, daughter and four annoying cats. And, yes, he knows who he has the same name as.

When he's not watching and writing about wrestling, he's probably playing video games, advocating for mental health issues, or yelling at something in his house for not "working the way it's supposed do, dang it!"

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Edited by Akhilesh Tirumala