barley96
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Post by barley96 on May 18, 2010 21:46:19 GMT -5
Bring in Bryan Danielson to beat up Michael Cole some more.
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Post by "Dashing" Dr.VonPhoenix on May 18, 2010 21:49:30 GMT -5
BRING BACK THE GODFATHER. And if you must keep Hornswaggle, make him his assistant pimp. I swear upon all that is holy... do this and I will never mock WWE again.
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AriadosMan
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Post by AriadosMan on May 18, 2010 21:49:39 GMT -5
They won't. UFC pretty much guarantees they won't.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 18, 2010 21:55:51 GMT -5
Vickie Guerrero HLA
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Dukect
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Post by Dukect on May 18, 2010 21:55:52 GMT -5
They won't. UFC pretty much guarantees they won't. This and the fact WWE had chances to do something big and create new stars they just for the most part pushed the old guys
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Post by Error on May 18, 2010 21:56:23 GMT -5
They won't. UFC pretty much guarantees they won't. Not entirely. If they can get the teen demos and say older siblings, family members to like it enough to take even a passing interest, they can get people to get their stuff more than before and be fine. I mean if little Johnny likes WWE and wants the PPV but, his brother and dad want to watch UFC, they're watching UFC. However if they can get little Johnny's brother to take enough interest in the show to want to see the PPV, they have a better shot at those PPV dollars. As for programming, 96-98 WCW and 91-93 WWF were family friendly and damn good.
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Post by immortalphenom on May 18, 2010 21:57:07 GMT -5
They won't. UFC pretty much guarantees they won't. Because it's impossible to like both MMA and wrestling?
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Post by Parker Stiles on May 18, 2010 21:59:40 GMT -5
T&A, Blood, stop worrying about kids.
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Post by Parker Stiles on May 18, 2010 22:00:29 GMT -5
They won't. UFC pretty much guarantees they won't. Because it's impossible to like both MMA and wrestling? I used to love wrestling, now I'm all UFC/MMA.. it's hard to go back to wrestling
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2010 22:02:56 GMT -5
As for programming, 96-98 WCW and 91-93 WWF were family friendly and damn good. This. These era are what they need to be looking at as an example. 1991-1992 WWF and 1992 WCW (as well as '96-'98 WCW) were especially great.
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Post by Janitor From Mars on May 18, 2010 22:10:07 GMT -5
MMA just bores me so it comes down to making new stars, pushing more wrestling and making the belts actually mean something again.
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Post by boomhauer20055 on May 18, 2010 22:10:12 GMT -5
There older audience has gone to TNA the past few months
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Post by immortalphenom on May 18, 2010 22:11:16 GMT -5
Because it's impossible to like both MMA and wrestling? I used to love wrestling, now I'm all UFC/MMA.. it's hard to go back to wrestling I can't get into MMA that way I like wrestling. It probably has a lot to do with who my favorite wrestler is, but I like the crazy gimmicks and storylines more than it being treated like a real sport with people whose gimmick is a fake name.
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Tapout
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Post by Tapout on May 18, 2010 22:54:42 GMT -5
If they actually do go this route, here's the first thing they should do: Take Randy Orton and make him a BAD ASS TWEENER who hates EVERYBODY.
THAT'LL get the older viewers! I mean, if and when they ever do something like that.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on May 18, 2010 23:31:42 GMT -5
There older audience has gone to TNA the past few months Judging by there ratings. It doesn't look like it. Really the WWE needs to just mix the too. Kinda be between what Attitude was and what is PG. Blood should come back. Because that what makes the gimmick matches more realistic. Hell in a Cell should always have blood and it was like that until last year. Blood makes the match in a lot of ways. Showing how dangerious the match is. Showing that the wrestlers are in well "hell". The blood use should be only on PPVs where fans are paying the money to watch it at home and used in a match style that it make sense. Not just because. Like Hell in a Cell would make sense. Normal one on one not so much. Last man standing match would add a lot to it. But a ladder match, not really needed. Really it about picking the right match to use it. More so if the two guys have had a long feud. They don't need to have the T&A. Which a lot of fans love it and I didn't mind seeing a pretty divas nearly nude but it's not needed/ That what may took some fans away. But I'm sure kids still watched it if they where allowed. I mean if a kid can watch sports where sometimes there is blood. Parents should be ok with it in wrestling once in a while. So yeah WWE should be somewhere in the middle of attitude and PG. Where some edgy stuff happens as far as promos go. but nothing over the top. Blood is used again in like I said situations. Unlike TNA who do it for no real good reason. See Flair and Abyss who bleed without a real reason for it. A normal one on one match a couple weeks ago Flair bleeds. Why? It made sense for PPV like Lockdown but not there.
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Post by valiens on May 18, 2010 23:50:16 GMT -5
I think they need to walk that line of realism again the way Stone Cold did when he first broke big.
Daniel Brian's shoot-like promo on tonight's NXT is the freshest thing in a long time. Why is that? Because he broke through the facade and touched a behind-the-scenes reality with seemingly legitimate anger. We need more of that realism.
WWE Creative should consider starting a renegade faction of wrestlers who lost NXT led by Brian, where they all drop their characters and speak truth to power from the common man perspective. These are the times we're living in and I think this is the best way to capitalize on the mood of America (at least. I don't know about other countries.)
And who better to lead that charge than a passionate wrestler who has toiled in the smaller leagues his whole career, and is a leftist, noncapitalist vegan to boot?--pretty much everything WWE and the dying consumer culture isn't.
It may sound weird but I think he is credible and reflects the turning tide of the people better than anyone I've seen. Give him the ball and the backing of his outcast NXT peers and you will bring in a whole new audience. Imagine the green crowd watching wrestling. It could happen!
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Post by wcw on May 18, 2010 23:57:57 GMT -5
{Disclaimer) I dont really think "PG" WWE is the awful nightmare some people keep obsessing over. That being said: Find a happy medium. You cant go back to 1993 where we have Doink the Clown and and Bastion Booger running around. At the same time, you also cant re-create 1999 where you had middle fingers and satanic rituals. Wasn't WCW a PG show? Its possible to have a serious but not graphic wrestling program that appeals to kids without insulting the older audience. Things like Hornswaggle fighting and beating Chavo each and every weak insults the older wrestling fan. Seriously watch WCW in its prime it appealed to kids (It appealed to me as a kid) yet it was the 1st wrestling program to get a big adult/teen audience (Before WWF pulled them away during the attitude era). All in all there is a way to have a PG program without insulting an older viewer.
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barley96
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Post by barley96 on May 18, 2010 23:58:08 GMT -5
Have Maryse be The Miz's manager and dress like this...
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Urethra Franklin
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Post by Urethra Franklin on May 19, 2010 0:01:16 GMT -5
There older audience has gone to TNA the past few months This is news to the Nielsens.
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Post by Raja Lion on May 19, 2010 0:01:51 GMT -5
Old news. He admitted it in the shareholders meeting a few weeks ago.
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