Last year on Monday Night Raw, they announced a concept where they would have a different "celebrity" guest host every week and that person would run the show like a general manager.
This was put into place originally as a summer ratings-boaster and then ended up sticking around because it was starting to catch on. Then they said that it would be over at Wrestlemania. Then they continued it because of TNA moving to Mondays. Now TNA is back on Thursday night.
It was a great idea at first. A few highlights included Bob Baker, Shaq, Floyd Mayweather, Ben Roethlisberger, Nancy O'Dell, The Osbournes, Mark Cuban, Mike Tyson and William Shatner. (not including the wrestlers that did it like Stone Cold, Piper, Jesse Ventura, Trish, DiBiase and Dust Rhodes) But for every good host, we have Jerry Springer, ZZ Top, Dennis Miller, Criss Angel and the guys from Hot Tub Time Machine and MacGrauber.
The key was that they were "running the show" and could do whatever they wanted, so the concept works. Well last week on Raw they announced that the "guest hosts" would lose their power. So now what's the point? Publicity? Fine have a celebrity show up every so often. But last night was the last straw for me.
During the commercial-free special Raw, they brought out Buzz Aldrin, and with all respect to an American legend, what the hell was he doing in Canada on a wrestling show last night? What was the point? Was it to show how the old man can't follow a script because that was evident? Was it to show that they couldn't get any Canadian legends to host the show? Or was it just a cry for help that they are running out of legit celebrities to have on the show.
With a few exceptions, Betty White, Neil Patrick Harris maybe, The Rock would great, let's please get this guest host crap. Next week they are supposed to announce a new official GM. With that announcement can it please end this pop-culture experiment? It's become a stupid joke at this point, and the only reason that people didn't tune away last night was because it was commercial-free and they offered us a good main-event.
So WWE, I ask as a long-time fan, can we please put an end to the guest host concept? It's old and getting to be more of embarrassment every week.
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