The worst part about the lack of stables on TV is that it’s the obvious missing link between WWE reaching the level of storytelling it so desperately needs.

With the absolute logjam of talent on the main roster they would be far better served taking a mixture of veterans that need to be on TV regularly (Bray Wyatt & Finn Balor) and young call ups that would otherwise be borderline enhancement talent, or best case scenario, comedy segments and tweeners (A.O.P).

Finn Balor currently gets buried week after week, and Bray Wyatt has been absent due to no writing direction. And A.O.P are currently carrying tag belts in a piss-centric feud.

Tell me you wouldn’t be super stoked to see some vignettes of a heel stable that was led by Bray Wyatt, Finn Balor as your top of midcard singles wrestler, and A.O.P as the brute forced heels to carry out Bray’s bidding.

Not only would that build a HUGE anticipation and weekly eyes on the screen to see if they were going to debut and how, but it would do so without fucking up any time for Vince’s token hour with giants like Strowman and Drew McIntyre (no slight against Drew and Strowman, but that is some shiiiiiiiit booking)

There is a logical reason I went with Bray, Finn, and A.O.P, and it comes down to being able to explain this to Vince quickly and succinctly, giving him a genuine vision in his own head of the endgame. Once you have Vince on the hook and can allow him to think something was his idea in the first place, you’ve got yourself some TV time.

Sure… Finn and The Good Brothers reforming a Bullet Club tribute act would be nice. But if there is one thing Vince loves, it’s a new merch opportunity. So if you make more Club merch it could just have meh sales like the original WWE Club merch.

Teaming Finn and Wyatt manages to take the merch moving capability of Bray Wyatt and the work rate and in ring quality that comes with both he and Balor.

Finn would be a class replacement for Seth Rollins, who’s obviously longed for the Main Event scene along with Drew McIntyre. Great work rate and as a heel you’d have a deeply interesting character to plan around, and with a stable he’d be able to protect a TON of up and coming talent without them getting cleanly pinned.

Bray has shown he’s a main event promo, but for some reason Vince doesn’t like booking him in the right feuds for titles. So you remedy that by combining his mystique, merch, and uncanny in ring psychology by having him finally fill the Undertaker’s void of semi-main eventer. He will be able to capture the internet crowd with great matches, and still satiate Vince by being a great promo and merch pusher every Monday night.

I’ve started to fantasy book the behind-the-scene happenings of WWE rather than what happens between the ropes. It’s the untapped path to fixing the brand and it’s overall quality.

Why? Because that’s Vince’s first language.

Money is just a dialect.

Business is his native language, and he’s fluent.

The lack of spot for Bray on Raw is mostly due to an ineffective writing team; Not for quality of writing, but communicating their ideas to Vince succinctly and. most importantly, allowing him to take some piece of ownership in it or believe it’s his idea in the first place.

The writers need a salesman.

I think if you allow the flow of ideas to get past the current Creative Dam that is Vince McMahon the writers will get into their groove and feel like they can spread their wings a bit more bit by bit.

We could get Bray Wyatt feuding with someone we’d never think of, and that might create new blueprints for feuds going forward. Unlike the blueprints which are a copy of a copy of a copy of a… oops ran out of ink, on Raw and, to a lesser degree, Smackdown.

This past week’s RAW was written mostly by a ‘restless’ Vince McMahon. And by God it showed.

Overall the problem right now is communicative in the behind-the-scenes rather than any inherent trouble with the quality of writers.

Wrestling is a sales game and that is why Vince loves the business in the first place. What is needed is better bookers and agents that think as sales people rather than an active crafter of material.

If you have a chain from writers to Vince that is explicitly a quality pitch man that can succinctly explain an angle or booking idea, and to still allow Vince to feel responsible for the idea.

From that point on, the agents job should be to massage Vince’s ego. Then, if it comes down to it, keep him comfortable in a storyline by further pitching; Filtering Vince’s bad ideas and tropes out of the equation as often as possible.

All while allowing Vince never to feel as if he’s being overruled.

The best part is that this can be achieved relatively quickly, and would have results in less than a few months in some cases.

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