We have a few backstage notes to pass your way about RAW next week. This episode will be taking place in Madison Square Garden and will be the go-home show for Clash of Champions.
According to Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live, Vince McMahon called a lengthy creative meeting on Friday about the episode.
Vince is apparently putting extra pressure on the writing staff to be more creative:
“I’ve been told they’ve been doing a Raw creative meeting all day and Vince is on everybody to be creative,”
Dave Meltzer also noted on F4WOnline that WWE is trying to make this episode a newsworthy show:
As noted earlier, Raw is expected to be loaded this week as far as an attempt to put on a good standalone show since it’s the first week against the NFL, not to mention it being in Madison Square Garden. My strong feeling is Styles vs. Alexander is there to be a great match of course, but for more than just that. There is very much going to be an attempt to make news on this show for all those reasons, but the competition aspect and it’s PPV go-home. The idea is also that Steve Austin will bring back lapsed fans so give them some angles and action to make them come back, which the Raw Reunion show failed to do.
Let me know what you think in the comment section below or on Twitter.
In other news, check out our Wrestlemania 38 predictions.
On a related note, check out 7 of the biggest rumors heading into Clash of Champions.
