A Long Night At The Office. New Details On Just How Hectic Vince McMahon Made Things At This Week’s SmackDown Live.

It was worse than it seemed. One of the best known problems for WWE over the years has been the last minute changes to their shows, often during the course of the show itself. This presents a major problem as it’s hard to know what you can put on during a show and work the kinks out while writing the show as it is taking place. That was the case again this week and it was even worse than it seemed.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Vince McMahon was having this week’s SmackDown Live rewritten all the way into the second hour of the two hour show. McMahon felt that the show did not build off of the previous week’s edition and did not help build towards Summerslam. This week’s show ended with a non-title match between AJ Styles and Kofi Kingston, plus a mystery attacker trying to take out Roman Reigns.

It ended with a bang. Check out the ending to this week’s SmackDown Live:

Opinion: I know the big story of the summer has been Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman being hired, but how much good can they be if you have the show being rewritten almost all the way until the last minute? There isn’t much that can be done under those circumstances and all this does is show you just how much control McMahon still has over the entire product.

How bad is this for WWE? What can be done to fix things? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.

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