A lot of backstage stories about WWE in the past couple of months seem to revolve around chaos and disorder, with last-minute rewrites of entire shows and questions about who’s really in charge. Although Raw is sticking with its current channel and time slot, it’s understandable that there’s plenty of stress and chaos to go around in WWE as they prepare to move Smackdown to Fox and NXT to USA, while anticipating their first real competition in a very long time. Still, last week Raw was an uncommonly enjoyable show, but the related news was that Vince McMahon was absent for it. Vince was back for last night’s show, but the story backstage was different than it’s been in a while.
According to PWInsider, last night’s show ran incredibly smoothly, and in fact may well have been the least troubled WWE show of the summer so far. Unlike some recent shows, there were almost no last-minute rewrites or scrapped segments, with the only except being that the Viking Raiders were originally booked to have another squash match (and there were local guys from Louisiana’s Wildkat Wrestling backstage and ready to go), but they were moved into the already-planned Tag Team Turmoil match instead.
