5 Reasons why WWE might currently be in panic mode

#1 The drop in ratings

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A big sign that those backstage in WWE might indeed be panicking has to be because of suffering some record lows in terms of ratings. That all started late last year and has continued until as recently as this week.

In order to combat the ratings drops, they've had John Cena come back a time or two and they announced that several NXT stars would be debuting in January 2019. When they had to call those NXT stars up sooner rather than later in order to boost ratings, it caused WWE to present them in an awkward fashion. Sometimes half of those new superstars wouldn't even appear on programming for a couple weeks. Or they would show up for two seconds backstage like EC3 or Heavy Machinery.

Lacey Evans walked the aisle literally almost every week, causing fans to wonder what her true purpose really was. Was she lost? Nikki Cross practically never appeared on either show.

Once these call-ups seemed to be doomed from the start, Mr. McMahon apparently called for the four top superstars in NXT - Ricochet, Johnny Gargano, Tomasso Ciampa and Aleister Black - to be called up to both shows. This was done allegedly without Triple H's knowledge.

Mr. McMahon also felt that the product had become stale and that they needed to create new superstars. Apparently Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman weren't in the running for being big stars. Wyatt lost every major feud he was in (John Cena, Reigns, Seth Rollins, Undertaker) and Strowman has had title shots but was booked to lose each time.

The ratings drops of late 2018 were ultimately blamed on Baron Corbin and his tyrannical run as interim-GM, but it obviously didn't solve the problem. Ratings are still hovering around lower numbers than WWE would like, so they might need to think outside the box in a good way in order to truly boost ratings into the stratosphere.