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The NXT booking is basic/simple, yet so much better than VKM/WWE programing. The matches are compelling while WWE are typically boring and insulting. Simple to most viewers isn’t it?
Well, until Vince McMahon agrees with you, you will have the dissenting opinion (one I share with you by the way).
Is Kevin Owens's son really named Owen Owens?
No since Kevin’s last name is not Owens! He took the Owens stage name in tribute to his son.
I was just reading a quote attributed to Armando Estrada, and it’s also been said many other places, here included I believe, that when the show is on every week of the year and filling six hours+ weekly, and the performers are overexposed and don’t feel special anymore. But wouldn’t this just be even more reason to bring back the brand extension? It gets said a lot that they don’t have the depth in the roster to do this, but I disagree.
I disagree with him. The reason Raw has its issues is that the booking is just weak. In addition to not being compelling or interesting, the company often ignores the past so continuity is not there either. Five hours a week would not be that much of a problem if the booking were better. WWE really only has to “write†less than an hour of storylines for Raw since matches, recaps, etc. take up the majority of the time on the show. Keep in mind, during the years of the WWE sellout streak, they had four hours of TV. Fans couldn’t get enough. The big difference is that Chris Kreski was doing a great job with the storylines then.
This may be an "unpopular" question but it's been on my mind following Survivor Series and with the recent RAW ratings. I really don't understand what the problem is. John Cena isn't around and hasn't been in the title picture. I agree, I'm not happy with what happened with Cesaro, Wyatt and Rusev but those have nothing to do with the current "issues". Randy Orton and Cesaro are injured so nothing WWE/Vince can do about it. Seth Rollins is inured and WWE had to do the tournament. Fans were booing Roman Reigns last year when he won the Rumble and at Mania so WWE keeps the title off of him which is what fans wanted. Ambrose is still in a good spot and is against the authority. I think if he turned heel fans would complain his character is now a corporate sell out.
Wow, Vince loves you! You are easy, and also wrong. Had Vince booked the undercard and upper card guys better, when top guys went down, other guys would be ready to step up. But the remaining guys have been booked so poorly that when the company needs to push them up the card, the fans remember their body of work and don’t accept them in the role. And your comment about Reigns is comical. The fans booed him at the Rumble for one reason, and that is because Vince made the insane decision to bring Daniel Bryan back for the Rumble, raising the expectations of the fans. Had they waited to bring Bryan back until after The Rumble, they wouldn’t have put Reigns behind the eight ball. What you miss is that everything that has happened in the past is quite relevant in the present to many fans.
About the ratings. Do they really matter? I know they matter to the network and WWE but in this day and age people watch shows on their own schedule. It's not like the attitude era where you had to watch it live. I just think just because ratings are low doesn't mean less people are watching it's just they didn't watch it live on tv.
Does money matter? If so, ratings matter. The number one revenue source for WWE is Television Rights fees. If the ratings tank, WWE is in a worse bargaining position when it comes to their next TV deal. So yes, they matter. A lot.
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