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Today I wanted to dive into some of the community’s thoughts on Retribution and Raw Underground
because there’s a lot talk going on right now, so let’s get into the wrestling news
The August 31st edition of WWE Monday Night Raw featured both an appearance from Retribution
and more matches from Raw Underground
After being gone for a week, retribution returned on raw to interrupt the tornado tag team match
between Angel Garza and Andrade vs The Street Profits
They flicked the lights to give the sign that they were coming and then they attacked
They took out everyone at ringside with even the retribution women taking out Zelina Vega
they finish the attack then run towards the backstage area
We see a frustrated Adam Pearce yelling and screaming at the security guards for not doing
their job and he sends them off
We later follow that up with seeing retribution take out the security guards and burst through
through the doors in front of Angel Garza and that was it for the night
I was looking through twitter, looking through Instagram, looking everywhere just trying
to get a feel on what everyone was thinking about retribution’s appearances lately and
there was one complaint that I saw a lot of fans bring up that I definitely agree with
and that’s the fact that they don’t find retribution interesting right now because
there’s no story to them, so their attacks are very pointless
Yeah, I definitely agree with those comments by the fans.
Retribution is a great idea and concept, but it’s been very poor execution so far
Not only the fact that their attacks are starting to feel repetitive and never lead anywhere,
but there are plenty of other loopholes with the basic logic of the group
So we don’t know the members, the motive, the leader, the objective or anything like
that, and now there’s rumors that they’re exclusive to raw
All we know is that they hate WWE and wanna cause havoc and stop them from having a peaceful
show
So my writing issue with that logic is why doesn’t retribution attack every show then?
Why just Raw all of a sudden?
What gives Smackdown and NXT a free pass?
From a logical point of view and like we always say, you can’t really use logic in WWE,
but still...logically speaking if you’re running a group where their main mission is
stop WWE from having shows then we aren’t they being more consistent with their attacks?
Why did they let Smackdown have a peaceful show and why did they let WWE have a peaceful
pay per view event with payback?
Now of course WWE can explain retribution’s absence on certain nights by saying “well
there was extra security, so that’s why they didn’t make it in”
Okay?
But how come retribution actually makes it though the security sometimes?
That’s the very subtle inconsistencies that I’m talking about.
If this group is serious about their mission to destroy WWE then why don’t they show
more effort to appear literally on as many shows as they can
Let’s step out of WWE storylines and put this whole thing into a realistic situation
If there really was a group hijacking WWE shows then why don’t they really hijack
the show until they get WWE’s attention
Like after the attack during the tag team match, why does retribution just run off to
the back?
If they’re serious about hijacking and
destroying the show then why don’t they stand in the ring, grab a mic and say “this
show isn’t continuing until we spoke with someone from management”
Just anything like that would add a lot for the story and really switch things up.
We’ll really get that feeling as if they’re legitimately taking over and hijacking the
show from continuing on
It just makes no sense, we saw retribution take out the extra security guards, so why
don’t they just come right back out to the ring and destroy the main event of the night?
It’s the biggest match of the night, so wouldn’t you want to make a big statement
by stopping that match?
That’s the problem I have retribution, their logic just seems to be all over the place
I know obviously WWE can’t stop the show all night for retribution, they have a show
to put on, but dedicate a nice little 10-15 minute segment to Retribution “holding raw
up”, making it seem like they’re actually stopping the show
It doesn’t make any sense for them to quickly attack someone then let the rest of the show
go on peacefully
If you’re building something big here you should have more of a direction of where you’re
going with them, but it doesn’t look like they have any idea how to use them
I like the concept of retribution, but I’m starting to be all out on the actual storyline
If things don’t change, if we don’t discover an actual member, leader, or motive for the
group, an actual story then I might just stop covering the storyline on the channel
I Iike retribution, but if random weekly attacks is the only thing they’re going to give
us every week then you’re not really giving me much to work with and discuss from a storyline
point of view
So unless things change with their direction, we’re gonna have to stop the coverage
I can’t pull much content out from little attacks every week, there’s no story there
Same thing goes for Raw underground.
The only time we discussed raw underground was with the controversy with the dancers
being removed
But as far as actual coverage of Raw underground, there’s just nothing to talk about
Just like retribution, raw underground is a cool idea and concept, but just poor execution
and it just feels pointless
They’re having these matches and debuts on Raw Underground, but there’s no storylines
behind the matches
The matches don’t really mean anything.
There isn’t any win / loss records, there’s no titles, there’s no story.
It basically just makes you wonder why is this being shown to us?
What’s the purpose?
I think that’s raw underground’s biggest issue right now.
It serves no purpose, it has no flow, and it’s just all over the place
The Hurt Business also closes out Raw Underground every single week it feels like, I don’t
know wants going on with that either
It’s like Raw Underground wraps up every week with the same ending of The Hurt Business
standing over everyone
I always viewed it as pointless filler and after I saw a lot of fans saying the same
thing this week, I thought it would be the perfect time to bring it into a discussion
Fans seem to be rapidly losing interest in both Retribution and Raw Underground for the
same exact reasons
Both Retribution and Raw Underground are overly repetitive, lack direction, have no story,
and both serve no real purpose to the overall show
So that’s why fans are calling for the cancellation of these two storylines, but I don’t know
if I would go that far quite yet
There’s still time and room for some redemption here.
I think retribution is the easiest story to save right now
All you need is to give them a detailed backstory, a good motive that the viewers would respect,
a strong leader or spokesperson, a new objective, and just stay away from doing too much of
the same old repetitive run-in attacks
That may be asking for a lot, especially from WWE, but I’m telling you, if they do everything
on that list right there, you can turn retribution around and get those same fans to be interested
in them again
The fans are just so uninterested in Retribution because you’re not giving them much to digest
and work with
If you switch that up with a good story, retribution very well could turn around to be the hottest
part of the show
As far as saving Raw Underground goes, I think that one is a bit more tricky to save
I’ll start off by suggesting maybe more time to be given to Raw underground?
I understand it’s all about quick knockouts and flashy fights, but it’s hard to get
invested in a 10 second match
You have no time to build a story or feud in Raw Underground.
Imagine a big hyped up feud in Raw Underground, the match will be over in 15 seconds anyway,
so how can you really build a match if it’ll be that short
Of course the obvious suggestion is to introduce a title, so that we can have some sort of
order and number one contender-ship, but I’m not so sure about that idea either
A title in Raw Underground would probably look like the 24/7 title, just changing hands
every 30 seconds and that will completely rip away the value of the title, so that’s
why I don’t think a title would work there at all
But what are your thoughts on this discussion about Retribution and Raw Underground’s
lack of story and direction?
Do you agree or disagree?
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