Where does the WWE go from here?

Question

I reckon the Trump/ Rosey segment on Raw the other night was more embarrassing for Vince McMahon than either of the people it intended to mock! These sports entertainment segments are turning the WWE into a laughing stock! All three brands of the WWE need serious improvement! They need to find a way of satisfying the WWE fans, whilst also attracting new ones. How does the WWE go about this?

Answer 1

First thing they need to do slow down if not stop the cross-brand things they been doing lately. Especially ECW... if a raw/smackdown superstar want to have a quick boost they run over and win the ECW championship. While RVD, CM Punk, and other ECW stars get crapped on. I know ECW doesn't have the locker room like the others, but still... its only an hour long, I'm sure they can deal with it. I think they need to get back to some basics and focus on the wrestling and not the talking. Get the tag team division up and running again, not just have two big single stars team up and take the belt from a real tag team *like Team Rated RKO or whatever they are*. They need to stop trying to dazzle us with stories and start dazzling us with great wrestling matches.

Answer 2

Vince forgets it's the fans that drive the product. as a fan i am no longer willing to by every PPV they produce just to blow the 40 dollars. I have watched them try and recreate the attitude era and fail if you come from another promotion you will get a small push then buried. With as big as the NWA is TNA should be a bigger threat to WWE but cause of the NWA being a bunch of mini federations TNA is the biggest thing out there it's no competition. What we have is a owner that is content on puttting as much T&A on screen versus real talent development. All 3 brand champions stink very little real talent on most of the rosters. Good wrestlers leave cause they get buried at mid card status. As the older talent leaves there's nothing there to replace them. Between backstage politics hollywood script writers and the lack of a real creative team the product has suffered greatly. Vince is so far out of touch with what the fans we get matches like K-fed vs the champ and the champ loses. fake rosie and trump impersonators to waste almost 30 minutes of tv time.

Answer 3

First of all, Vince needs to take himself out of the creative decision making process. He should govern the company as a whole, but allow people who specialize in story writing and match booking do their job.

As far as story telling goes, that is the only thing that wrestling has going for it. Nobody beleives that wrestling is real past the amatuer ranks. Something has to bet there to keep the fans tuned in every week. There have to be cliffhanger endings, emotional characters, and controversey. If the WWE presented a "wrestling" show every week, why would we need a reason to watch. The wrestling is fixed.

The best thing for the WWE is to overhaul the creative process. Vince needs to listen to the fans that chant "boring" in the stands. He needs to get some people in the company that will tell him what is and is not working without fear of being fired. He also needs to get his family out of the situation. Nobody is going to tell Stephanie or Shane or Triple HHH how horrible they think their product is.

They also need to get all the creative personel together and figure out long term storylines and character development. All the gimmicks that are not working need to be trashed. New, younger talent needs to be brought in that can produce a faster paced and exciting product. No one wants a 20 minute headlock fest. Remember nine years ago the WWE enjoyed a resurgence because the product was remodeled to reflect the current culture. They brought in new guys with actual development and backgrounds. Remember the Val Venis vignettes and the Edge promotions?

As for the wrestlers themselves, they need to be trained to not only emphasize the wrestling, but also the entertainment. Promos and acting now-a-days are just as important as the wrstling. Too many guys today do not bring the emotion and the ability to sell an angle.

Answer 4

when tna becomes a threat then wwe will become its dominating form but tna aint and they have alot of money problems and they wont become a threat intill some big time rich guy buys them gets rid of there debts and get them out of that shabby little room they call the impact zone while wwe goes on the road in big arenas with well known stars and they do put good matches on u dont see them beauce thay get over shadowed by bad ones and people change the channel if you look at smackdown they have really no stupid scenes or matche they have the best wrestling od all the 3 brands all they need is bigge main event talent raw has too much ecw should be axe and the talent go to smack down so really why wwe aint pullin the extremes into become so exciting and thrilling is they can relax and tone it down when wcw went wwe toned it down becuase there no threat but wwe will always be the 1 wrestling in the world mainly because loads of money they have 3 packed rosters with good talent and besides tna is going down that russo is in tna impact has gotten boring tastless crappy so russo is killing tna liked he helpd kill wcw.

Answer 5

They need to somehow bring back
The Rock
Stone Cold
Goldberg
Brock Lesner
Revive DX by recruiting new members
Make better storylines for the Undertaker and Kane
Put SmackDown, Raw and ECW together
Bring back NWO so they can have gang wars with DX (that would be AWESOME!)
Hire more WWE Divas who can actually fight ( It would help if they are hot, sorry ladies i'm a guy)

I think that is it

Answer 6

Wwe needs to start making good matches and not matches with donald and trump in.I liked the 90 and in the 2000 and 2001.But now the storylines are crap,also john cena is the man on raw and batista is the man on smackdown.

Answer 7

They should try getting new superstars or making the storylines better, i have given up watching smackdown because it's just really boring, i think it needs more story to it. The thing that keeps raw going at the moment is DX but i don't think that will be going on for much longer.

Answer 8

Pure wrestling and less story telling are all too important a change to make, but many of the current wrestlers on the roster are all talk and no substance. It's hard to keep the roster balanced since the majority of those who can wrestle get overworked and end up injured. A medium is needed or else they'll never get ahead.

Answer 9

side v Taker: I were given to provide it to the Deadman. that's a revenge tournament for him and in spite of side's depleted realationship with vicki guereroowhocares?! he continues to be the heel and the corporate will opt for the Taker HHH v Khali: the game is the veteran and khali isnt unbeateable. cant see how the corporate might want to let khali win - I propose WHO somewhat must be certain that. A champ who won't be able to talk? CM Punk v JBL: JBL is a jobber, yet Punk is purely champ because Mcmahon might want to opt for which one among his elite wrestlers he needs to make champ. yet Punk ought to win to legitimize his status for the subsequent challenger. Kingston/James v Santino/BP: Santino and BP are short exceeded because santino(the nature) is a pusbag. So its surely BP v Kingston. Kingston might want to win that contest, yet I really have a feeling santino and bp would win on a fluke or monkeybusiness type victory. MVP v Hardy: I dont somewhat watch smackdown...yet i believe hardy to be better gifted, yet mvp is solid. Hardy prob wins. Cena v Batista: oh my god. is this tournament somewhat going to be that tremendous or are we going to sense cheated after gazing it? not uncomplicated call - Double DQ perchance.

Answer 10

Hopefully up! I believe wwe will bounce back there just at a down time due to all the big talent that has left the company in recent years but it takes time to develop characters and have them be appreciated by the fans. Vince has been doing this for 30+years and I have faith in him that he will give us a entertaining experience!!