Khan and bucktooth mcgee, Kevin Dunn and Pritchard all worked to push HHH out.
The problem is even though we consider Raw and Smackdown ratings to be low, because like you guys, I went through the monday night wars with the huge ratings, Smackdown is still gaining a fairly consistent 1.6 to 1.9 million viewers, while Rampage is sitting at half a million.
Raw I think is 1.6 to 1.9 million viewers. AEW Dynamite is in that sub 1 million and isn't really closing that gap. So even though Raw to me is booked badly and boring as dirt, there's no motivation to change.
Neither fed at this point is in anything but what I would call stagnation. They've captured their audiences. Neither is growing or decling rapidly, so the formula doesn't change.
We can argue about house shows, but in this day and age, house shows don't matter, and the WWE makes money hand over fist with their TV deals, and their streaming network deal.
The only way that serious change will happen for WWE is if the ratings plummet and the "war" with AEW gets a lot closer.
For both Federations there's nothing new happening. There's some individual players that stick out, but for the most part the stories and booking are just a case of whatever, same old same old.
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