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[Kane Knight]

Because of a couple of the threads (How did we get here and the cyclical threads), I've got to thinking about Raw. Where we are right now, and this is what I see with it (Yep, bit of a rant coming through):

John Cena: Yeah, nobody's booing him anymore, and all it took was a full point of ratings loss, give or take, to do it. This is not particularly a new argument from me, but it's worth pointing out. John Cena became champion during a relatively stable ratings period, and ratings started to suddenly go into a "bust period" with him in charge for a long period of time. Ratings weren't doing hot, but they were stable. Well, we finally got rid of the boos, and only had to drive off over half a million viewers to do so.

Triple H/DX: Now, I know that internet fans are called "fickle" for cheering someone when they're good, and booing someone when they're not. If being able to tell good from bad is a bad thing, I don't want to be good. But that's not the main point here: People are all over Triple H again, and I don't blame them. Right up until his latest injury, he was the best thing on Raw.

Let me tell you why this is a bad thing:

Hunter has gotten exactly what he wants. He is top dog in the business. The problem is, while he may be the best thing Raw has going, it's not so much because he's the best, but because everyone else sucks. Of the upcoming wrestlers, half seem to be misused and half seem to just blow it all by themselves (Shelton seems to start screwing up any time he's near the main event). So while DX is on top, it wasn't so much "King of the Mountain" as it was "Nicest smelling guy on the shit heap."

I can't blame WWE fans for cheering Hunter/DX, even if they are incredibly tired and lackluster. There isn't much on the roster to cheer, period. 'Cept Flair, who we must cheer because ZOMG HEZ UH LEGEND and Cena, practically the only Main Eventer to actually come out of this Era (Before we get any Rated RKO fans, saying something incredibly gay, this is about face reactions right now). There's a bunch of low and midcarders, but WWE keeps telling us not to care (Except about Jeff Hardy, who will likely be fired).

Further, DX didn't really struggle this time around, which made it horrible. When the good guys were winning steadily, it became boring. Fast.

Rated RKO: While I don't think it's a bad thing that the biggest reaction seems to go to a heel team, it is problematic when the only viable competition seems to be injury-prone veterans who tend to destroy their competition. With Triple H out, where do they go? I suppose they could pair up Cena and Michaels, but that leaves most of their high profilers feuding in one evet (On the plus side, it gets rid of Federline as an actual wrestler). Who else? We can bring in someone else (Waltman), turn Dykstra (Pun intended), or bring someone else up, but you still have the same problem, since Michaels wants time off anyway, and is injury prone. Meanwhile, if Michaels leaves, they're in deep shit period, but that has little to do with RKO. They'll find themselves with literally nowhere to go except down, feuding with a lesser tag team (Or maybe just a rehashed one--I'm sure WWE would love the chance to bring back the HArdyz vs Edge and Orton), and that would be bad for them in all likelihood.

Vince: Isn't it ironic that, during a period where they were pushing "Controversy Creates Cash," They were busy hiding any controversy that existed?

So who else really can go places? And I don't want Alienoid schemes, I want realistic answers. Who do the fans have to cheer beyond Hunter and Shawn? What exactly is there to make people want to watch?