Current Events > How would you save the sinking ship that is WWE?

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Go back to PG-13.
End brand split.
Anything else?

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cut Raw to two hours
get better at realizing who's naturally over

New ownership. Kick out Vince McMahon and let a liberal run it. Purge the Trumper shit from the franchise

By lighting it on fire! That ought to be effective, right?

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Less scripted promos. Allow for some improv moments there's so much micromanaging over every word uttered on the show

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Getting rid of Vince is the first and most essential step.

Stone cold.


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vince retires, steph and trips clean house and hire people who actually know what they're doing.

brand split either dies, or becomes something with an actual purpose. i used to want separate divisions (ie, one show centers around WWE title, women's tag, and a couple midcard belts, the other gets Women's title, men's tag and a couple midcard belts.)

but recently i think i've had a better idea. each brand should target a different audience. have one show aimed at kids, saturday morning or evening, pg if not y7. campy, super hero shlock. the second show aimed at teens, basically what we're seeing now, without the stuff that would fit better with the above. third show, aimed at adults. attitude era-ish, or maybe similar to what NXT was but with a little more... something. deeper, complicated stories. long term plans that hold up to adult levels of scrutiny. and yeah, maybe the occasional profanity.

the talent can each choose which brand they want to work for. run it almost as if it's three separate companies.

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I don't know if it can be saved. Slightly improved, maybe, but not saved.

I grew up with WWF/WWE, loved it for years, but eventually gave up on it completely back in 2014. I can't think of anything that would convince me to start watching again.

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Zikten posted...

New ownership. Kick out Vince McMahon and let a liberal run it. Purge the Trumper shit from the franchise

wtf, can you stay on topic

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Bare knuckle boxing

Show us something real

But the company and get a new creative team

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-Abolish hot tags outside of handicap matches. They've been done to fucking death and it's time to stop insulting the audience's intelligence with them.

-Place a moratorium on the following spots

• Heels winning battle royales by faking an injury and coming back in to eliminate the last guy. Or if this spot is used have a face authority figure reverse it and DQ the heel
• Heel managers/valets/allies using the cage door against faces in cage matches
• Distractions on the Titantron or stage lead to a roll up finish. Distractions are a necessary part of telling stories but the offender needs to do more than just have their music play and leave Gorilla.

-Do a full Poochie termination of the Mr.McMahon character. Vince can come out as himself if he must but his character should be left in the past where it belongs

-Have wrestlers brawl backstage and in public more often. If there's anything I miss about the AE and RA it's this.

-Writers should always have something for the under and midcard to do. Say what you want about Russo's faults but this wasn't one of them.

-Fire Kevin Dunn as producer/director. He can keep his spot on the board if need be but he needs to go as the architect behind the scenes.

-Promo scripts should have outlines of what wrestlers should say not full blown speeches that they have to memorize. On that note...

-Announcers need more freedom in calling the action. Some words should be banned if their considered too obscene for a PG program but they shouldn't be the owner's puppets either.

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darkprince45 posted...

wtf, can you stay on topic

I did. that is how to fix WWE

That would literally change nothing. Or else AEW would be doing better than wwe right now. You just trying to turn this into a trump thing

and the biggest draws of all time are trumpers lol. Undertaker, etc..

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I wouldn't.

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The old company needs help.

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Get rid of the womens divisions, stop hiring nerds, turn a blind eye to steroid use

Save it?

Not only would I gladly watch that ship sink, but I'd take a selfie with it in the background.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

cut Raw to two hours
get better at realizing who's naturally over

So you want them to lose a bunch of money so they fire even more people because of budget costs?

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Let that mother burn for all i care. I tried to warn the community 20 years ago about hhh backstage powers and people told me i was delusional. Yeah what now.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

So you want them to lose a bunch of money so they fire even more people because of budget costs?

Ignorant

Bad_Mojo posted...

So you want them to lose a bunch of money so they fire even more people because of budget costs?

or... do another show on wednesday?
Doesn't WWE already have that?

Just get Rondetty back.
She literally was leading the company

Heartomaton posted...

Save it?

Not only would I gladly watch that ship sink, but I'd take a selfie with it in the background.

Sadly this.

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Heartomaton posted...

Save it?

Not only would I gladly watch that ship sink, but I'd take a selfie with it in the background.

Oh shit. HHH is a CEman.

How about not opening every raw with a half hour of talking?

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Tell Vince youre going for a ride

Get him in the car

Drive him like 1,000 miles away into some abandoned woodland in Montana

Open the door and boot him out

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Zikten posted...

New ownership. Kick out Vince McMahon and let a liberal run it. Purge the Trumper shit from the franchise

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The Popo posted...

Tell Vince youre going for a ride

Get him in the car

Drive him like 1,000 miles away into some abandoned woodland in Montana

Open the door and boot him out

Incidentally, this is what Pink Floyd did to Syd Barrett.

Zikten posted...

New ownership. Kick out Vince McMahon and let a liberal run it. Purge the Trumper shit from the franchise

Ooh, what kind of downstream benefits would that have

Sounds interesting

UndefeatedGOAT posted...

Ooh, what kind of downstream benefits would that have

HHH and Steph actually did this for awhile, with NXT, then Vince took it back somehow.
Shane was smart to become a China shill.

Nothing. Wrestling in general is well passed its prime

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The Popo posted...

Tell Vince youre going for a ride

Get him in the car

Drive him like 1,000 miles away into some abandoned woodland in Montana

Open the door and boot him out

Remember that promo where The Undertaker did this with the Big Show
https://youtu.be/KEfL-x_Gab0

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ShineboxPhil posted...

Does Big Show have tits here?

By shipping Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn to Abu Dhabi.

CloneTheHero posted...

he mans promoting tactics and booking havent aged well

what specifically

not challenging you, I'm interested on your take

Kill sports entertainment. Professional Wrestling is sustainable, Sports Entertainment is not.

Stop all the stupid WWEisms now. All the bans on certain words (like wrestler) or belt (referring to the championship) need to stop. With professional wrestling, you can sometimes lose yourself in it. The way WWE makes people talk is just so robotic and unnatural.

Have the shows built around wrestling. On a 2 hour show I want at least 5 matches taking up 45 minutes.

Cut the number of titles in half. The titles don't seem to matter anymore.

Cut the number of PPVs in half. Monthly PPVs have always sucked. Always.

Have actual long running story lines and respect the audiences intelligence. Stop acting like what happened 2 weeks ago doesn't matter.

Follow fan reactions more and quicker.

Quit pushing talent just because their dad was a wrestler.

Get more managers. There is a reason there used to be managers all over the place, they can get heat or get someone over who is a poor interview on their own. Paul Heyman shouldn't be the only manager on the roster.

Give tag team wrestling some respect.

Let the wrestlers make money on the side. E.g. twitch and the likes.

The finishers of mid-carders and above need to be protected. If you want someone to kick out of a mid-carders finisher, it should either be an upper carder or used as a moment to give someone a push.

For the next 20 years WWE should not have a single heel authority figure. Neutral, or face. They have totally killed this character.

Stop writing scripts for the wrestler promos. Let them be themselves.

Get some better commentators. Corey Graves is the only decent one they have right now.

Honestly I think there is no saving WWE. What i put above is only like 1/10th of what they need to do.

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Mr Socko

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Blackjack and hookers.

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pokeytrader posted...

Getting rid of Vince is the first and most essential step.

Yep. This. A bunch of yes men agreeing with all of his creative decisions has been sinking the product for years.

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CloneTheHero posted...

firing a lot of wrestlers seemingly every few weeks in the name of profit.

gladly taking saudi blood money and putting the entire roster in an uncomfortable position (look at the women in those saudi shows they have to completely cover up) not to mention the plane fiasco a few years back which mustve been pretty nervewracking.

then theres the whole "sports entertaining" garbage. this company tries so hard to distance itself from wrestling and fancies itself a hollywood studio with all the scripted contrived nonsense that goes on in that company. they have effectively killed any spontaneity wrestling once had. spontaneity is wrestlings life blood.

i think your putting your politics into it too much tbh

not that your wrong or anything, but when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail

Cut off all the male wrestlers, and have more boobalicious and phatass sweaty woman 'fighting'

Viewership increases hundredfold

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CloneTheHero posted...

wrong. the plane fiasco has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with safety. its no different than going to north korea lmao. youre really rolling the dice. they may detain you, imprison you at a moments notice and there's nothing you can do about it. go read the first hand accounts of scott steiner, eric bischoff during wcw's visit to north korea. they were scared shitless.

you asked. and its an opinion shared among many

the plane ride from hell?

Pay per view event

Naked Mud wrestling!

Jk

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ForsakenHermit posted...

it's time to stop insulting the audience's intelligence

its wrasslin after all

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