Remember looking forward to PPVs?

[Deleted]

So yeah there's a PPV today if you forgot. I have seen into the future and there's a 100% guarantee it's going to be comparable to the last few, i.e forgettable.

What happened?

[wakko]

Complacency IMO. WWE has no real competition and so they don't have to try as hard. Do they still try? Sure, but they don't put as much into it as they would if WCW were still around. Competition gives you that extra drive to pull out the stops. And WWE is on cruise control.

That's my thoughts anyway.

[Madagascar Fred]

Vince: "TV money is sexier dammit!!!"

[543Y2J]

Meh quality drops at this time of year anyway. Extreme Rules is normally good as the writers/bookers/agents are still on a high from Mania, they know MITB is a major event now so they continue that mindset through still with momentum from Mania. Leading to Summerslam, which get's everyone hyped up, while the major storyline of the year starts/continues. Everyone (myself included) thinks it will carry on through autumn only for the quality to really really drop again (effecting NOC, 1st Oct PPV and HIAC) until the hype for Mania starts at Rumble (or arguably sometimes in the TLC buiild) and the writing team/Vince starts to really care about the decisions they make again. It happens every year

It also doesn't help this year that the amazing lead writer/head of creative team left after Summerslam.

[Ben Wyatt]

Remember when there wasn't a PPV every 3 weeks?

[jimmyjames]

I haven't seen a PPV since about 2000, so I'm probably not the best source, but from reading comments, reviews, and match by match description, it seems as if most, are just commercial-less RAWs. They're predictable, seem kind of thrown together, and there's no real conclusion or major change that wasn't unforeseen or won't be continued on Raw. Plus, I think the 3hr Raw has taken something from the PPVs that made them special and different.

[Boo!]

Survivor Series has been wank for years. Rumble has...the Rumble, Wrestlemania is Wrestlemania and Summerslam has had some really top matches over the last few years. Survivor Series, aside from that Rock one, has been a 'B' show for many years. To be honest it was always my least favourite of the traditional four. Just a cluster**** of tag matches.

How Vince used to rundown the card too was annoying.

"Hulk Hogan and the Earthquake captain their respective teams of the Big Boss Man, Dino Bravo, Jim Dugan, Haku, Typhoon and the Barbarian - it's the Hulkamaniacs vs the Natural disasters"

...without knowledge of kayfabe - who's on whose team?

[BV]

I thought the past few Survivor Series have been pretty good. I have no interest in this one sadly. Usually the PPVs heat up around this time, actually.

In between Summerslam and Survivor Series they've completely managed to kill my interest in the product.

[BRV]

I just hate that there are now 13 pay-per-views annually, but the WWE only puts effort into five, maybe six of them.

Royal Rumble - The kickstart to the road to WrestleMania
Elimination Chamber - The last stop on the road to WrestleMania
WrestleMania - The biggest event of the year
Extreme Rules - The fallout from WrestleMania
Money in the Bank - The crowning of two new title contenders, also serves as the genesis of feuds that will culminate at SummerSlam
SummerSlam - The so-called Biggest Party of the Summer, and arguably the 2nd or 3rd biggest event of the year, depending on how you feel about the Royal Rumble

Every other PPV is totally interchangeable, completely expendable, and at worst, utterly irrelevant.

[Deleted]

Immediate rematches later on in the week ON FREE TV makes me feel like I'm just wasting my time and money on them.

(Sign #27 of why WCW went belly-up.)

[wisdomwizard]

We really have to have a complaint thread about Survivor Series when it hasn't aired yet tonight? I think it has the potential to be really good actually, regardless if Big Show vs. Orton ends in a DQ.


With the PPVs in general I think they got screwed up by having to do HIAC and Battleground too close to each other. TLC was great last year, I think it might be again depending how it goes.

[willywonka666]

too many and as it was stated earlier-complacency-just like everything else in the world. But it must make tons of money so they'll keep it this way til it doesn't work-but that's like waiting for black friday to fail

[TGM]

I'm more interested in the fall out RAWs than the ppvs.

[The Ichi]

This has to be the least I've cared about a PPV in quite some time.

[RedSmile]

The whole PPV model that the WWE uses is old and dated anyways. There is a reason the Superbowl isn't on PPV.

[xCompackx]

I dunno, I still at least mildly look forward to them. Even the bad PPVs tend to have at least one awesome match and something interesting could happen.

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

Remember when the go-home show before a PPV had a graphics rundown of the matches coming up at the event? Those were great and got me real excited for PPVs.

[wisdomwizard]

The PPV schedule for next year actually looks better than this year. If I remember right, June or July have the double PPVs but they'll at least have three weeks in between unlike HIAC after Battleground. The creative team should have a lot more breathing room next year and that should reflect in the story and booking.

[MichaelMartini]

Aside from the actual lack luster card, it seems like they gave away everything that could've made this PPV special on RAW already; an IC title win, A Miz heel turn and a Rey return.

[Hit Girl]

I haven't looked forward to a PPV since the turn of the century