Hey Avenirup! WWE question

[Delinquent]

Hey man, I was wondering if you had any insight on this WWE shake up? For them to actually do a lottery next week, wouldn't that completely trash any all scripts that have been written? Maybe whatever is in the lottery machine will be colorcoded so each wrestler knows the exact one to look for? I'm glad they are finally doing something like this. Hopefully this will be a turn for the best.

 

[avenirup]

Hey man, I was wondering if you had any insight on this WWE shake up? For them to actually do a lottery next week, wouldn't that completely trash any all scripts that have been written? Maybe whatever is in the lottery machine will be colorcoded so each wrestler knows the exact one to look for? I'm glad they are finally doing something like this. Hopefully this will be a turn for the best.

The lottery has been an idea the WWE has had for a while. WWE management knows which wrestler is going where--this has been already planned out. The reason they are doing this now is because the lack of top talent on the shows (now more so with SmackDown) and also due to the departure of Brock and Goldberg. The only problem is that in a year or so, with the same guys on each show, they will need to do it again because the product will start to get stale again. That is the problem with having two brands...and not enough top talent. They either need to start creating new top talent and stop pushing the same talent or just merge into one.

 

[powerslave]

That never made any sense to me to have two "brands".

 

[avenirup]

That never made any sense to me to have two "brands".

To WWE it did....in the past few years the "attitude" product has become stale, so they wanted to recreate the WWE/WCW war effect because that was the most successful time (money wise) in pro wrestling history. At first they tried a Eric Biscoff vs Steph McMahon (Raw vs Smackdown) but that didn't do much business. They have since tried to seperate the two brand sas much as possible, only having them on the same PPV at the RR, WM, SS and S Series (the big four). There goal is to double business by having twice as many house shows, twice as many PPV (one a month for each brand except for the big PPVs = 20 total!!), basically twice as much revenue. So far it has not worked. TV and PPV ratings are down, house show attendence is down, so the are hoping the lottery may bring some business back...we shall see. Unless they get better storylines, I doubt business will pick up anytime soon. Storylines now a days are harder and harder to come up with because with both brands and so many weekly shows the storylines change so much. Back in the 80's you could have one fued and storyline last 6 months (example is Randy Savage vs Ricky Steamboat) and everyone was fine with that because of the limited WWE exposure. Now if they last more than a month it is considered a long time---If they only had one brand and cut down all the TV exposure, they probably could get back the good product they had a few years ago.

 

[canadianhitman]

Vince dropped the ball. Way back when, he shoulda just kept WCW as WCW and put Nitro on Thurdsdays to replace smackdown. Have special crossover angles for PPVs only, to keep it 'special' and increase PPV buyrates. He had the ideal situation, and screwed it up by just merging everyone.

 

[avenirup]

Vince dropped the ball. Way back when, he shoulda just kept WCW as WCW and put Nitro on Thurdsdays to replace smackdown. Have special crossover angles for PPVs only, to keep it 'special' and increase PPV buyrates. He had the ideal situation, and screwed it up by just merging everyone.

I agree.