WWE Rumor Roundup: Company trying to stop Superstar from leaving, Erick Rowan's new look - 5th September 2019

#3. Unscripted nature of this week's Raw

During the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer was discussing how WWE's heavily scripted NXT will go head-to-head with AEW's weekly television and during the same, he revealed that most of the promos on the most recent episode of Raw weren't scripted word-for-word.

"By the way, on RAW this week. Several of the promos were not scripted word-for-word, which is interesting."

He even explained how AEW is planning on doing the exact opposite of how WWE has been running its shows.

"I’ll tell you what, the one thing as far as Wednesday goes is it’s going to be a heavily scripted show vs a show with no writers. Legitamelty, they are not hiring writers, and we’re going to see a live 2-hour show with no writers, just wrestlers, you know, coming up with storylines, and going out there and have them cut promos and you know, knowing the bullet points.

They want to memorize their promos, they can, if they don’t want to memorize their promos, they don’t have to. But there is not going to be any word-for-word stuff.Let’s face it, a lot of the scripted promos. We’ve all complained about it forever for the obvious reasons they’re badly delivered and lifeless and all that. We are going into a new era or a new concept and we’ll see if pro wrestling needs scriptwriters to be effective to television."

Paul Heyman's influence is quite evident from the way promos are being delivered every week on Raw. It seems like WWE is also moving to a more unscripted format for its product which would feel more natural to the fans.

WWE is slowly shifting to a new era without undue restrictions and that can only be best for business.