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In recent months I have started to lose interest in both RAW and Smackdown and will only watch PPV's and NXT. NXT has some really good things going, but I worry how the stars will move to the main roster. I cannot see where and how Adrian Neville or Sami Zayn will fit onto the main roster. Tyler Breeze will end up being a midcard comedy act. After the flops of Adam Rose, Bo Dallas, Xavier Woods and to some extent Big E (thought he would be a main guy by now) do you worry about how NXT talent will be booked on main roster like I do?
I do. The problem is not matter how well they are booked in Florida under Triple H, once they come up to the main roster Vince McMahon takes control of their characters.
Am I mistaken? On a recent Raw, Hogan said that this upcoming Cena/Lesnar rematch was the "rubber match? I don't know what I am remembering, but I could have sworn that the first time they met Lesnar whupped him. Then they had a second match, and Cena won. Then came Summerslam. So what am I remembering wrong, or is Hogan just being his usual dumbass self?
WWE is starting with the Extreme Rules, then taking the SummerSlam match to make it 1-1.
I totally acknowledge that a large % of the WCW audience no longer watches wrestling or a tleast Raw but do you really believe that it's as bad as is being reported? Is there any chance that the combined Raw and Nitro audience had fans counted twice when they flipped back and forth between the 2 shows? What was the highest total audience during the Monday Night Wars? 10 million, 12 million? I have to think that those people were counted more than once. What was the highest Raw viewership before Nitro as that might answer whether or not they were counted twice and perhaps not all of the WCW crowd stopped watching.
The combined audience was often over 10 million people back then. But if someone switched from one show to the other, they were only counted for the show that they were watching at the time.
What ever happened to MDog20? I thought he was an extremely talented backyard wrestler and was really exciting to watch. He and carnage use to destroy each other and if all of that was scripted, they definitely fooled me.
He added an "ad" and a 20 to his name and started making cheap wine. If you mean Matt Cross, he has been wrestling and we heard he has been given an offer for the upcoming Lucha show on the El Rey network.
From a visual standpoint, do you think WWE does enough to differentiate their shows? I get they are trying to save money by not having to build new sets, but they have stripped all distinction away from their shows except for the ring-skirts. A viewer watching "Superstars" (a glorified dark match show) is seeing an identical presentation to a viewer watching Summerslam or Royal Rumble.
I don't understand the question. They are marketing one product. To me, it makes sense to make it uniform. They tried the "making the brands different" thing already and it didn't work. I think it makes more sense to make the TV shows look the same. Sprucing things up for the PPVs is fine, but I like the TV being uniform.
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