5 ways for the WWE to improve Monday Night Raw

#4 Give the fans people to get behind

Finn Balor on Raw

Right now, the Raw roster is in a state of flux. And to be fully fair to WWE, they are having to adapt to the unplanned absences of two of their most popular stars; Roman Reigns stepping away to battle leukemia, and Braun Strowman out of action due to surgery.

With that said however, one glaring problem with Monday Night Raw is that there are not even a handful of superstars who are positioned in a way to make fans want to get behind them.

Clearly, Seth Rollins is the hottest babyface act on Raw right now – as has been the case for the past year – but other than that, there’s only really Ronda Rousey who is being fully embraced by fans.

In years gone by, there have always been a slew of stars at any one time who have the fans rallying behind them. Back in the early ‘90s you’d have Hulk Hogan on top, with names such as Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Davey Boy Smith, and the Legion of Doom all getting 100 percent backing from fans elsewhere on the card.

As the decades have gone on, there has still always been a roster that has plentiful acts whom fans can relate to and fully embrace and cheer on. Nowadays, not so much – particularly when just solely looking at the Raw brand.

If you take Rollins and Rousey out of the equation, seriously who is there left for the majority of fans to get behind? And when there are no stars who you gravitate towards and take in as “your guy” or “your girl”, that’s when fans have little investment in the product, minimal reason to keep watching, and all the more reason to switch off.