It's been reported by wrestling expert Bryan Alvarez that many fans were leaving Monday Night Raw last week, Dec. 7 before the 16-man tag team main event. This may be due in part that few fans enjoy tag team matches, which involve more than six wrestlers.
A 16-man tag team match may be a bit much--even I turned off my television for having no interest in the match. This is in part because the WWE creative team may not have an idea as to what their viewers and fans would watch. Their ratings have shown a decrease in viewership and even the live event has trouble keeping interest.
Perhaps the reason lies in the creative team, which pitted two starkly different characters with one another that, truthfully, did not match up. While each four-man team may have made sense in theory, coupling them into a match was not a remarkable decision.
The matches to see included the ECW team, which are Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley, Tommy Dreamer and Rhyno, and any match involving Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns. But, those two teams have little reason to be together and adding the Usos made this all much more confusing.
The other team, consisting of the Wyatt Family and the League of Nations (which not coincidentally is a metaphor for failure as of 1920 for the pre-UN) is just a team of eight without any sort of history. Yes, Sheamus does have a match with Reigns at TLC, but there's no legitimate story line behind it.
Other than Sheamus cashing in his Money in the Bank contract, nothing seems to carry any weight. With the WWE World Heavyweight Championship lacking any depth, every undercard feud involves very low-level mid-card competitors that draw nearly no interest.
There seems to be no value in the WWE right now and it supposed that the WWE Creative Team lacks direction for its top stars. The only feuds they are putting effort into involve superstars that are not received by the WWE fandom.
If they put that effort into creating more attractive matches and feuds with fan-proven superstars their ratings could potentially improve. Right now, however, they appear lost and the company cannot afford another awful main event. Now that fans are leaving the arena before the crux of the show, both in on TV and in person, the WWE is at a call-to-action now more than ever.
