Evaluating The General Managers Under The Corporate Heel Storyline

A few months ago, they had this angle about evaluating Vickie Guerrero's job as Raw GM. That led to some shifting of power in terms of who was running the two shows. Brad Maddox took over on Raw, while Vickie got Smackdown. I am not going to be looking at how entertaining the two are as authority figures right now. I am going to be evaluating how the WWE is actually utilizing them.

Why even bother bringing this subject up? Because the roles seem almost pointless. You have Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, and Vince McMahon all being heels and calling the shots. The General Managers are both just pawns under them. It would make more sense to consider them corporate assistants to Triple H and Stephanie. Their roles are being overshadowed.

When Maddox took over on Raw, they treated him as the GM the fans deserved. It was a heel move from Vince McMahon. What should that have led to? An incompetent GM angle? Instead, it manifested itself in just another authority figure being used by the bosses above him.

When Vickie went to Smackdown, it looked like she would be bitter over the fans wanting her to lose her job on Raw. That could have led to an angle revolving around Vickie Guerrero getting a reign of terror on Smackdown. It didn't happen. Well, not with her. Triple H is getting the reign of terror.

Just taking a general evaluation in how the WWE is creatively handling the GM positions right now, it seems really useless. I don't blame the writers. The McMahons obviously want to run a big storyline about them being the top heels against Daniel Bryan. It just isn't really possible to treat Vickie Guerrero and Brad Maddox better with all this other stuff going on. It is a waste. I find it hard to consider them true GMs when they are overshadowed like this. As I said before, make them assistants to the real heels in charge. They will still have power to make matches. The only thing that would really change is the job title. Sounds trivial, but it might help with the flow of the storyline a little better. I just can't take Vickie and Brad seriously as in charge as a GM should be.