Brian Gewirtz Demoted From WWE Raw Head Writers Position

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According to Dave Meltzer, Brian Gewirtz has been removed as the head writer of RAW after having the job for more than ten years. Gewirtz is still under contract as a consultant.

Vince McMahon is said to be in a bad mood backstage at RAW. "I want results or I want resignations" was a quote from McMahon provided to Meltzer

update:

As reported earlier, Brian Gewirtz was removed from his position as the Senior Vice President of Creative Writing but remains employed. He will be replaced by Eric Pankowski, who was hired in February, and previously worked as a senior executive at Reveille and Warner Bros.

The head writer for Raw is David Kapoor who also goes by Ranjin Singh. The head writer for Smackdown is Ed Koskey however, Koskey is going to be taken off the road and will be working more out of WWE Headquarters. Gewirtz was working above both and anything they wrote had to be approved by him before going to Stephanie McMahon. Vince McMahon of course approves everything as he has the final say.

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Update:

After Monday's big creative shake-up at RAW, one source told F4Wonline.com that the stress of RAW being three hours has finally hit Vince McMahon. The entire weekend built up and imploded on the WWE flight to the West Coast for this week's TV tapings. Vince had been in a bad mood for several weeks and something happened on that flight that pushed him over the edge. We noted before that a major blow-up with a top WWE star backstage was a major factor.

Brian Gewirtz, who has been demoted to a consultant role, was the Senior Vice President of Creative and had been reporting directly to Vince and Stephanie McMahon. He was recently demoted to the "home team" that stays at WWE headquarters and works on scripts. It's said he had only showed up to the Stamford offices three or four days a week for the past year. This got him major heat with others.

The head writer for RAW is currently Dave Kapoor, the former Ranjin Singh. Ed Koskey is likely still the head SmackDown writer for now while Eric Pankowski is the overall head writer. Many others have creative input including Michael Hayes.

One source put some of the blame on Stephanie McMahon. He told F4Wonline.com: "The reality is Brian isn't the real issue or even a band-aid. Stephanie has run this dysfunctionally toxic division for the entire duration of its ratings decline. Her horrendous structure from the committee dynamic to who she fast-tracks and how rigidly the shows are structured are why this product isn't gangbusters. Plus, three hours is a [disaster]."

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If this means less comedy skits and more focus on storyline I'm all for it at the moment the storylines haven't been particulary great even the build up to Rock vs Cena could've been better.