Post by Boo! on Dec 17, 2013 15:18:33 GMT -5
Present them from the position currently where Josh Matthews presents the pre-game show from, only throwing to the commentary team specifically for the matches. Build-up, review, discussion of each match can take place in the studio with the panel consisting of someone better than Josh Matthews, Jerry Lawler and a rotated or regular third guest.
They could, for example, open the show, run down the card and then proceed to talk about the opening match including showing any video montage that's been made for it, discuss the story leading into it and then discuss opinion on who may be victorious. Then after this is done they throw over to Michael Cole and JBL who will call the match and upon its conclusion throw it back up to the studio for analysis and a look ahead to the next bout.
I'd also have fewer matches and make each match longer. For a PPV we should be treated to 20-30 minute matches a piece as 'reward' for the financial outlay, as oppose to having 5 or 6 minute matches just to bulk the card. I think as television is full of matches that don't even span an entire segment, a unique selling point to PPVs can be that there are 4 or 5 matches that go the distance.
This would mean fewer matches and it'd give them the opportunity to use part of the 3-hour Raw show to have PPV quality matches. Not just rematches from the PPV or a match you can see again on the PPV but feuds that are specifically intended to culminate on television. So taking last night as an example; you could have Cena/Orton, Wyatts/Bryan, Shield/Punk and Langston/Sandow matches on the PPV meanwhile all the time building up as "2 weeks away/next week/tomorrow night on Raw, there's the Fatal Four Way for the tag team titles".
I think having longer matches, presenting it in a way that apes UFC, will perhaps freshen things up a bit and even if endings to PPV matches are screwy or clustered, at least the fans will be getting decent length matches that would in someway compensate for any unsatisfactory booking decisions. If you watch a PPV full of 5 to 10 minute matches, save for maybe one match on the card, it'd likely bother you more if the finishes were inconclusive or unsatisfactory. Whereby if you had watched a ppv here each match gave you good value, you might be less likely to be pissed at a screwy ending.
They could, for example, open the show, run down the card and then proceed to talk about the opening match including showing any video montage that's been made for it, discuss the story leading into it and then discuss opinion on who may be victorious. Then after this is done they throw over to Michael Cole and JBL who will call the match and upon its conclusion throw it back up to the studio for analysis and a look ahead to the next bout.
I'd also have fewer matches and make each match longer. For a PPV we should be treated to 20-30 minute matches a piece as 'reward' for the financial outlay, as oppose to having 5 or 6 minute matches just to bulk the card. I think as television is full of matches that don't even span an entire segment, a unique selling point to PPVs can be that there are 4 or 5 matches that go the distance.
This would mean fewer matches and it'd give them the opportunity to use part of the 3-hour Raw show to have PPV quality matches. Not just rematches from the PPV or a match you can see again on the PPV but feuds that are specifically intended to culminate on television. So taking last night as an example; you could have Cena/Orton, Wyatts/Bryan, Shield/Punk and Langston/Sandow matches on the PPV meanwhile all the time building up as "2 weeks away/next week/tomorrow night on Raw, there's the Fatal Four Way for the tag team titles".
I think having longer matches, presenting it in a way that apes UFC, will perhaps freshen things up a bit and even if endings to PPV matches are screwy or clustered, at least the fans will be getting decent length matches that would in someway compensate for any unsatisfactory booking decisions. If you watch a PPV full of 5 to 10 minute matches, save for maybe one match on the card, it'd likely bother you more if the finishes were inconclusive or unsatisfactory. Whereby if you had watched a ppv here each match gave you good value, you might be less likely to be pissed at a screwy ending.
