On a recent edition of Figure Four Daily, Lance Storm shared his thoughts on WWE’s new concept, ‘RAW Underground’. Storm ended up explaining one big issue that he has with the new concept.
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Here is what he said (h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the quote below):
“Nobody has brought up the point that I think is the issue. They created a really cool look. By having these, let’s say, way more violent, way more quick sudden big throws, takedown, ground and pound and KO’ing guys, it looked exciting. To me the issue is you debuted it with what I would consider a UFC knockout highlight real where there were 4 matches in under 2 minutes. That’s less than 30 seconds a fight. If this gets over, they are in real trouble because the suddenness and the violence of a 30 second first-round KO is great, but you have a 3-hour show to fill.
If Dolph Ziggler does a great amateur takedown, a go behind, chokes this guy out, you say, Ziggler looked awesome. Yea, he did, but if he has to do a pro wrestling match on RAW next week and go 12 minutes, I think there is the real fear of what happened to badass Dolph that can beat a guy in 30 seconds? So, I think the double edge sword is if RAW Underground doesn’t get over, then it’s a failed concept and it doesn’t get over. If it gets over, what do you do? You can’t do a 3-hour show with 30-second fights. If you would have debuted with Chad Gable and Matt Riddle in there and done more of the Josh Barnett Bloodsport match where they had a more realistic, more violent, 8-minute match, then if it gets over, you start doing more of that. When you start with the greatest knockout reel of all time with 20-second finishes, I think you run the risk of anything else is going to seem long, slow, and dull.”
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On a related note, here is what John Cena had to say about the ‘RAW Underground’ concept.