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  1. my alienation has to do with the amount of programming increasing exponentially coinciding with a large decrease in my free time. i don't understand how a fan with a full time job, family and kids can have the time in the day to be a fully engaged wrestling fan these days. during my peak (single, easy commute, access to dvr and wwe 24/7) i was watching 7-10 hours a week. today, (married, kid, longer commute) i'm down to maybe 3 hours. the wwe alone wants 7+ hours of your week for original programming. that's before you get started with their classic content. that's before you get started with the other streaming services. that's before you go down a youtube rabbit hole. the hours in the day just don't exist. and i'm not alone. i would say i always had a rotation of 3-4 friends who would keep up and watch consistently. maybe less than me but enough to be fully versed in what was going on. one by one as each of us reached our 30s and the time-constraints of adulthood took hold. it seems like its one of the first things to go. they still consider themselves fans but don't watch anymore on a weekly basis. i'm of the belief that raw ratings are indicative of the current level of people who view wwe programming as can't miss tv. it is not an effective barometer of the number of people who consider themselves wrestling fans. there are wrestling nomads all over the place. people who don't have the time to watch. who are bored with three hour raws. people waiting for the next punk to come along. the wwe twitter feed has 9 million followers. even a hhh or an orton have over 5 million. those are big numbers when you consider how many people are actually tuning in,
  2. Bray is great. The question of whether he is ready depends on whether he can get people to boo him and cheer Cena. That's not a small order.
  3. I'm just waiting for Vince to throw Bryan under the bus again at the next conference call. "Pushing Bryan was a swing and a miss. Now Raw is on the Food Network after Rachel Ray."
  4. It seems like a failure for WWE to come to a deal with NBCU during the negotiating window was expected. WWE wants a lot more money than what is currently being paid. As NBCU has the right to match any deal, they have no incentive to give the WWE what they want without seeing if someone else will do it first. The only downside to NBCU is a bidding war. While, they have a long established relationship, Raw on USA doesn't make much sense anymore. It is a premier television show on a network that really has little use for it. None of its other programming appeals to WWE viewers and vice versa. I also can't imagine USA is getting significantly higher cable rights fees because they carry WWE programming. So they're not getting much value out of the programming. What makes the most sense is for a FXX station to step in and make a run at Raw. A station that has dreams of being a big time player in cable who overnight will be able to charge higher rights fees.
  5. HHH v. Punk would've been terrible. The last decent feud HHH had was with Sheamus. If you recall that ended with HHH squashing Sheamus (a la Batista on ADR) and stripping him of any/all credibility to show that he was back!!
  6. The key to all of this is that WWE is a self-contained world. Outside of WrestleMania, which draws in casual viewers, they don't need much promotion. They do enough promotion on their own programming. The cable companies have acted for years simply as the distribution channel and have collected hundreds of millions of dollars because of it. A lot of these giant cable companies don't make enormous profits. The WWE ppvs were a consistent revenue stream which required little to no effort on their part. I can certainly understand why a DirectTV would be pissed. However, they had an ample opportunity to get in on the ground floor with the network and chose not to. Can't wait for the hypothetical Raw Post-Show hosted by the Miz...for when 3 hours of live programming just isn't enough wrestling.
  7. Punk had a great 2012 and was my favorite wrestler on the roster. In 2013 he has had his moments (Taker/Brock) but on a week to week basis he has been completely overshadowed by the rise of Bryan, the Shield, Cesaro, Rhodes brothers, etc. I think I'm spoiled now, a little bored of his moveset and have become accustomed to seeing classics on a weekly basis. Punk is only giving me 3-4 classics with incredible build a year. After writing that sentence with complete sincerity, I can see why Punk would have little patience for wrestling fans.
  8. The complete collapse of the authority angle left a very sour taste in my mouth. It was Bryan's story but so many wrestlers came along for the ride. Suddenly half the roster was wrestling with purpose. The downfall of the angle and the problem with creative is/was a lack of patience. The WWE creative model is madness. It is very difficult to get a wrestler over long-term without a prolonged push. But if when the push begins the guy is not an immediate draw he gets dropped down the card. The result is there is one draw and five over guys on the entire roster. The writing needs to be less reactionary. You're going to have no idea what will draw 2 years in the future by looking at this weeks quarter-hour ratings. Dropping an untested draw (Bryan) into four consecutive ppv main events and watching him struggle only shows that he is not there yet. Not that he never will be. Traditional scripted tv shows are written and filmed in a vacuum. A big chunk of the season is in the can before ratings come out. Before the critics/fans can tell the writers what they think. The writers can do what they have to do without constant fear that the rug will be pulled out from under them by a loss of viewers between commercial breaks.
  9. Is there any reason why the WWE has to give away their B-ppvs for free on the WWE Network? Wouldn't a combination of classic programming, new programming, hyped like only WWE can (APP APP APP APP TOUT TOUT TOUT) bring in a huge chunk of subscribers? Maybe sprinkle in a big time ppv once or twice a year? Why not set it up where if you subscribe to the network the B-ppvs are discounted? Thus you are giving people incentive to purchase the subscription and incentive to purchase the ppv. I know if a well-booked ppv was $25 bucks I would be much more likely to purchase it.
  10. I wish this ppv would teach them to stop trying to tell the fans what they want to see. Judging by the reaction less pose down to end the show, nothing was learned.
  11. I don't want to pile up on Natalya. I probably pay more attention to her matches and may be overly critical because she is a common topic of discussion. However, her smackdown match last friday with tamina was terrible. Natalya hit one offensive move (a clothesline) and spent 15 seconds trying to awkwardly get Tamina's long legs into a sharp shooter. It was bad. Miz applying the figure four bad.
  12. The problem with the diva's division is that the company and fans have minimal interest in it. This ultimately makes every diva replaceable. This makes the title a joke (see JBL mocking AJ). This makes the model v. wrestler argument redundant. I know for myself I don't want to see women beat each other up.
  13. The difference between 1998 WCW and 2013 WWE is in the old WCW days the inmates were running the asylum. There was a glut of older established main eventers who were all very protective of their spots and rarely did jobs or made someone beneath them look good. In today's WWE there are only a handful of guys who are protected by WWE creative and Cena, the top dog, comes off as a team player who loves to make people (see Punk, Bryan and now Cesaro). Orton, the second most protected active wrestler just spent the last 4+ months making Bryan look good. Creative just has no idea what they're doing.
  14. I blame most of the roster issues on poor booking. I would divide the roster into five categories. 1. -Who has not had a feud in a year. 2. -Who has not cut a promo in a year. 3. -Who loses a lot and has lost credibility. 4. -Who suffers from 50/50 booking. 5. List of guys I do not find entertaining. When I went through the roster, its obvious that most of the roster has been gimmickless and directionless for over a year. Sometimes being fed to the main eventers to fill up tv time. Other times trading wins/losses I see talent in a lot of these guys and most of them are redeemable. It just takes (wait for it) a gimmick, direction and some protection of their credibility. 1. List of guys who have not had a feud on Raw/Smackdown in the last year: ◾The Great Khali ◾R-Truth ◾Kofi Kingston ◾Zack Ryder ◾Justin Gabriel ◾Alex Riley ◾Brodus Clay ◾Yoshi Tatsu ◾Sin Cara ◾JTG ◾Hornswoggle ◾Drew McIntyre ◾Heath Slater ◾Jinder Mahal ◾Hunico ◾Camacho ◾Primo ◾Epico ◾Hawkins 2. List of guys who I have not heard talk on Raw/Smackdown in over a year: ◾Kofi Kingston ◾Zack Ryder ◾Justin Gabriel ◾Alex Riley ◾Brodus Clay ◾Darren Young ◾Yoshi Tatsu ◾Sin Cara ◾JTG ◾Tensai ◾Hornswoggle ◾Drew McIntyre ◾Heath Slater ◾Jinder Mahal ◾Hunico ◾Camacho ◾Primo ◾Epico ◾Hawkins 3. List of guys who lose all the time and are no longer credible: ◾The Great Khali ◾R-Truth ◾Kofi Kingston ◾Zack Ryder ◾Justin Gabriel ◾Brodus Clay ◾Yoshi Tatsu ◾JTG ◾Dolph Ziggler ◾The Miz ◾Tensai ◾Ryback ◾Alberto Del Rio ◾Jack Swagger ◾Wade Barrett ◾Drew McIntyre ◾Heath Slater ◾Jinder Mahal ◾Hunico ◾Camacho ◾Hawkins 4. List of guys in the mid-card who suffer from 50/50 booking. ◾R-Truth ◾Kofi Kingston ◾Darren Young ◾Titus O’Neal ◾Cody Rhodes ◾Dolph Ziggler ◾The Miz ◾Alberto Del Rio ◾Fandango (?) ◾Jack Swagger ◾Wade Barrett ◾Primo ◾Epico 5. List of guys who have never entertained me. ◾The Great Khali ◾Darren Young ◾Sin Cara ◾Curtis Axel ◾Jinder Mahal ◾Erick Rowan Not on my lists: ◾Jey Uso ◾Jimmy Uso ◾John Cena ◾CM Punk ◾Daniel Bryan ◾Randy Orton ◾Christian ◾The Big Show ◾Kane ◾Triple H ◾Brock Lesnar ◾Mark Henry ◾Antonio Cesaro ◾Roman Reigns ◾Seth Rollins ◾Dean Ambrose ◾Big E Langston ◾Luke Harper ◾Bray Wyatt ◾Goldust ◾Sheamus ◾Undertaker
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