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Post by Sir Woodrow on Mar 5, 2015 23:20:12 GMT -5
Two things I'd do at some point - Set up some type of talent exchange/agreement with NJPW. Secure the rights for DVD releases and whatnot, then send some people over for international matches, bring in some of their people, and possibly do an extended run or so. I'd also funnel some money to ROH in an unofficial manner and use them as a minor farm system. Allow talent to have some matches there or, if one of their guys is hot, bring him up to WWE. I love NXT but it would expand the farm system a bit and could be beneficial for both companies. Use ROH similar to the original ECW. With the guys that are tearing it up in NXT use that to help foster a good relationship between WWE & ROH, promote a card that says one night only, Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn return to Ring Of Honor
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Post by Neo: "The One" who CLAPS on Mar 5, 2015 23:29:34 GMT -5
I like a lot of these. The changes I'd make would be replacing JBL and Lawler with William Regal...and that's it.
Also, I also yearn for a return to soap opera storylines. Like, if Barrett and Ziggler feuded over Paige, that'd be cool.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 5, 2015 23:48:39 GMT -5
•Change the look of the show. Strip down the set, make it smaller and less guady. Saves on money and you can sell more tickets. Less focus on the hardcamera and having performers playing to it. Kevin Dunn's McDonald's approach to production must end. No, the big LED set is staying. I might think about loosening up the camera work a little, but it needs to look bigger than life. I'm not a fan of low-lit shows. •If you're gonna put someone on TV, make us give a shit. 3 hours of ten minute matches that have no stakes is a bore. Every minute of the show should be advancing the narrative. Not every fan has the same idea of what advances the narrative and what constitutes a true waste of time. You can tell that by our threads, so all I can do is try not to write badly. •End the shilling and over self promotion. WWE used to be a lot more subtle about this stuff. They now consistently break the "show don't tell" rule to the point where you can't really get behind anything. If you mean those drawn out pre-taped segments on Raw where Stephanie and a bunch of other wrestlers are droning about some new corporate venture or awareness thing, and how WWE is the #1 leader and look at Hunter's muscles and blah blah, then yes, there'll be less of that. (and likely redirected to WWE.com). But I don't see the harm in the announcers mentioning Twitter hashtags, that's fine with me.
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Post by Red Impact on Mar 5, 2015 23:55:25 GMT -5
You had some good ideas, but lost me at the jobber squashes.
I get the appeal, sure, you want the PPV matches to feel big and they don't if the people involved have wrestled 30 times over the past month. But jobber squashes are a relic of an era that's not coming back, and for good reason. If they must occur, it should be, at most, 1 time per show, either to sell a new wrestler or give a returning one time to work off television rust. By no means should they ever occur more than that, and if you want to keep your main event matchups fresh, cycle matchups between midcarders and main eventers.
I also see no reason to cut Cena's television time to that sparingly. He's a draw, people like him even if he isn't an internet favorite. Sure, scale his wrestling back some, but you don't suddenly take your biggest draw off of tv for weeks at a time.
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Post by madness50 on Mar 6, 2015 1:24:28 GMT -5
Don't think anyone has mentioned eliminating multiple rematches between the same wrestlers on TV. If two guys fought each other on several shows and then had a blowoff on PPV, what's the point? Simple logic is to build to the PPV match and make it more important and must see.
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Post by revolver86 on Mar 6, 2015 1:26:12 GMT -5
Another thing I'd throw out there. Cultivate 2 or 3 top faces and heels and rotate their screen time on a bi weekly basis. Structure each week around a top guy, then leave them off TV, the next week, and focus on another. Oversaturation is a real issue, and this would be a way to help. Raw should be presented as a true sporting event that is being disrupted by a core story. Juggle the top folks while building up the under card will do wonders.
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Post by Wrestling Curmudgeon on Mar 6, 2015 1:28:25 GMT -5
This is just all of the stuff I'd like to see on TV. I'd... - Talk to USA or whatever advertisers or suits necessary to make Raw a two-hour show again, so as to prevent fan burnout during the show - Encourage more communication and collaborating between the main roster and NXT teams - Promote John Cena to a face GM position over Raw and Smackdown, cutting his TV time to either bi-weekly or once a month. Mainly wrestles on house shows/PPVs, and maybe once every four months. Wears a suit jacket over his usual gear - Cody Rhodes, Sami Zayn, Daniel Bryan, Sasha Banks, Tyler Breeze, Kofi Kingston, Luke Harper, Bayley and Dolph Ziggler are all likely to get superpushes - Turn Ambrose, Roman Reigns heel - Team Heath Slater with Jimmy Hart, and let them go on a Honky style midcard heel run - Up the soap opera element, making the feuds about something other than "I hate you" and "me want title match" - Write less meta stories. No more "brass ring" bullshit, no more hinting at stars not being properly pushed. The shows would feel more like 1980's WWF in tone - More jobbers for the main eventers and upper midcarders to squash - More interviews backstage, or at least I'd put the "heels discuss their plans" segments within that context - Style the Divas division more like the NXT Women's, make it less "foxy boxing" - Ignore CM Punk altogether - Replace Bill DeMott with a nicer trainer - Replace Lawler behind the booth with Dusty Rhodes - Have a sitdown with Kevin Dunn for a man-to-man talk about how he feels about my ideas. If he's cool with them I'm cool with him, if not then I'll think about firing him So did I kill the company? I think it's really cool that we took the super long comment in a Youtube video, copy/pasted it, and started a thread here.
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Post by Georgina's Fancy Water on Mar 6, 2015 1:30:18 GMT -5
more non-sensical face/heel turns. invading heel faction trying to take over the company repeated for several years. hire russo! empty arena matches during ppv's, half way through the ppv and not let half the fans back in unless they pay again.hire editers who don't give a crap about the job and just slap the show together. oh crap I've started channeling Dixie carter This one in particular is so genius that it makes me want to go out and start a promotion right now.
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Post by madness50 on Mar 6, 2015 1:37:27 GMT -5
Another one I forgot was more backstage or pretaped promos and less in-ring promos. Save in-ring promos for big angles.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Mar 6, 2015 7:52:33 GMT -5
One other thing I'd like changed. Can they please stop doing the fade to the titantron during the backstage promo part? First time I saw that visual I thought it looked nice. Then in typical WWE fashion it was beaten into the ground mercilessly and shown another 37 times during the same show , subsequently I never wanted to see it ever again!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2015 8:10:04 GMT -5
Sign me right up. I'm down with all of that. Especially the people you want to push, and the no more "brass ring" type meta angles.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 6, 2015 8:12:11 GMT -5
Another thing I'd throw out there. Cultivate 2 or 3 top faces and heels and rotate their screen time on a bi weekly basis. Structure each week around a top guy, then leave them off TV, the next week, and focus on another. Oversaturation is a real issue, and this would be a way to help. Raw should be presented as a true sporting event that is being disrupted by a core story. Juggle the top folks while building up the under card will do wonders. Cody is my de facto top face, but he won't be pushed to a godlike Hogan level. As for Raw's presentation, it's going to be more like a TV drama about a sporting event. If you've seen the kind of vignettes that Lucha Underground uses to build their stories, that's what I mean.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2015 8:17:50 GMT -5
You suggested that Cena become a GM that doesn't appear every show.
Funny enough this sounds like something an anti Cena person would post. Even funnier enough, I'm going to disagree with it.
I think for a lot of viewers, people like booing Cena. It's gone beyond booking, habit, attitude etc and just on to "This is a fun thing to do". That's all well and good, you don't want to discourage that. If people like booing him, regardless of the reason, let them do it.
After Roman cut that goofy jack and the beanstalk promo, I was actually looking forward to his next promo. Sure it wasn't for the right reasons, but damned if I didn't honestly tune in seeing what goofy promo he would cut next. He ended up not doing so and they cut his promo time which is no fun (for me anyway).
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Post by Fauxnaki on Mar 6, 2015 8:48:54 GMT -5
im all for dusty on commentry making cena gm isnt the greatest idea though
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Post by Boshek on Mar 6, 2015 10:27:22 GMT -5
I like these ideas:
- Encourage more communication and collaborating between the main roster and NXT teams
- Promote John Cena to a face GM position over Raw and Smackdown, cutting his TV time to either bi-weekly or once a month. Mainly wrestles on house shows/PPVs, and maybe once every four months. Wears a suit.
- Cody Rhodes, Sami Zayn, Daniel Bryan, Sasha Banks, Tyler Breeze, Luke Harper, Bayley and Dolph Ziggler are all likely to get superpushes
- Turn Roman Reigns heel
- Team Heath Slater with Jimmy Hart, and let them go on a Honky style midcard heel run
- Making the feuds about something other than "I hate you" and "me want title match"
- Write less meta stories. No more "brass ring" bullshit, no more hinting at stars not being properly pushed. The shows would feel more like 1980's WWF in tone
- More jobbers for the main eventers and upper midcarders to squash
- More interviews backstage, or at least I'd put the "heels discuss their plans" segments within that context
- Style the Divas division more like the NXT Women's, make it less "foxy boxing"
- Ignore CM Punk altogether
- Replace Bill DeMott with a nicer trainer
- Fire Kevin Dunn.
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Post by saintpat on Mar 6, 2015 10:35:31 GMT -5
This is just all of the stuff I'd like to see on TV. I'd... - Talk to USA or whatever advertisers or suits necessary to make Raw a two-hour show again, so as to prevent fan burnout during the show - Encourage more communication and collaborating between the main roster and NXT teams - Promote John Cena to a face GM position over Raw and Smackdown, cutting his TV time to either bi-weekly or once a month. Mainly wrestles on house shows/PPVs, and maybe once every four months. Wears a suit jacket over his usual gear - Cody Rhodes, Sami Zayn, Daniel Bryan, Sasha Banks, Tyler Breeze, Kofi Kingston, Luke Harper, Bayley and Dolph Ziggler are all likely to get superpushes - Turn Ambrose, Roman Reigns heel - Team Heath Slater with Jimmy Hart, and let them go on a Honky style midcard heel run - Up the soap opera element, making the feuds about something other than "I hate you" and "me want title match" - Write less meta stories. No more "brass ring" bullshit, no more hinting at stars not being properly pushed. The shows would feel more like 1980's WWF in tone - More jobbers for the main eventers and upper midcarders to squash - More interviews backstage, or at least I'd put the "heels discuss their plans" segments within that context - Style the Divas division more like the NXT Women's, make it less "foxy boxing" - Ignore CM Punk altogether - Replace Bill DeMott with a nicer trainer - Replace Lawler behind the booth with Dusty Rhodes - Have a sitdown with Kevin Dunn for a man-to-man talk about how he feels about my ideas. If he's cool with them I'm cool with him, if not then I'll think about firing him So did I kill the company? You killed a big chunk of TV revenue (USA isn't going to pay the full 3-hour rate for 2 hours of programming) and probably a lot of merch and ticket sale money from taking John Cena off of being on TV and in ring on a regular basis. You've built the company around some people who aren't proven draws. So I'd like to hear the rest of your plan: who are you going to fire and what else are you going to do to cut costs in keeping with the loss of revenue?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2015 10:49:35 GMT -5
- Write less meta stories. No more "brass ring" bullshit, no more hinting at stars not being properly pushed. The shows would feel more like 1980's WWF in tone. This might be the best of your ideas. Because my goodness, this is a real problem in current WWE. It feels like WCW in the late 90's. Every damned thing is a worked shoot. All these stories of disgruntled mid-carders and divas who don't like their lots in life. Main eventers who are angry at not being picked by the company as "the guy." It's so very tiring and I can't deal with it. On one hand, I don't think these stories have much of a shelf life because you can't effectively write them. On the other hand, I find it extremely patronizing, since I have legitimate grievances with WWE's caste system. The narrative disgusts me. They do these stories about people who want something better, but things actually would be better if the company gave a damn about its workers and didn't treat its customers with bald-faced contempt. Don't like me? Okay. I won't give you my money, watch your shows, or even support the wrestlers.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 6, 2015 14:37:33 GMT -5
You suggested that Cena become a GM that doesn't appear every show. Funny enough this sounds like something an anti Cena person would post. Even funnier enough, I'm going to disagree with it. I think for a lot of viewers, people like booing Cena. It's gone beyond booking, habit, attitude etc and just on to "This is a fun thing to do". That's all well and good, you don't want to discourage that. If people like booing him, regardless of the reason, let them do it. Just based on his record, I think it'd be more fair to both him and the fans if I discouraged it. His character here is sort of like "Jack Tunney with charisma", much less arrogant than he's come off the past year or so.
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Post by sidneyvicious on Mar 6, 2015 16:22:48 GMT -5
- Sack 50% of the roster - Sack the entire creative team - Restart WCW as a separate brand
- Make Scott Steiner head of communications
_ Sit back & enjoy
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