Is WWE Spread too Thin Now?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

If so what fat needs to be trimmed?

And don’t just say 205 Live

[Sephiroth]

RAW back down to 2 hours.

Merge the universal/whc, tag team, and women’s belts and just have the champions appear on both shows.

[Push R Truth]

The problem I see is the glut of talent is in the Upper Midcard-Lower Main Event. There is a whole bunch of dudes that could be champion by Wrestlemania without stretching the boundaries of belief. But the problem is the titles are all clogged up with rematches and rematches of rematches. Not to even mention the whole "Roman/Lesnar Clogging up half the world titles forever" scenario.


So much of their "fat" they really shouldn't be gotten rid of. They are just too good. But if you keep the entire midcard...then the problem falls to getting rid of "jobbers" like Hawkings/Ryder/Slater. But these guys have managed to make themselves something people care about. And you need perpetual losers. Getting rid of them would murder the midcard as great wrestlers would fall down the ladder.


So I guess I'd argue that the problem isn't too much talent. The issue is a tiny amount of their high end talent is clogging up a huge portion of the time/card. With a roster this stacked they really should be spreading the wealth. Not tying their main world title down to part timers in waiting for Roman's 7th coronation.

That said, their ability to make great tag teams out of dudes like Sheamus/Cesaro/Owens/Sami/Seth/etc have really helped. That's a step in the right direction. It's just a shame that so often they have to combine stars in order to fit them on their 6 hours of weekly TV. That alone is pathetic.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

It has become thin in some areas but it doesn't have to be this way. Look at the Smackdown tag division for example. The Bludgeon Brothers have essentially destroyed the Fashion Police and the Ascension in the span of a month. Now, neither of those teams should probably be at the top of the scene right now. But do they need to be total geeks? Of course not. You can build those dudes up a little bit more with no name jobbers or guys training in NXT. Bring some guys like the Spirit Squad if needed. When your roster is already split, there is no need to have the bottom third of each roster to be treated like trash.

[Final Countdown Jones]

WWE isn't spread too thin they just don't care enough to use the tools they have. The roster is teeming with talent, but they spend their shows throwing on lots of filler segments and drawing things out while not really doing much to make stars out of the roster they have. When Raw moved up to three hours, I and a lot of other people around here hoped it meant WWE was going to be using that extra time to put in more midcard storylines and better utilize their roster, but instead they just stretched a show written for two hours of content out into three. If that third horu isn't negotiable then they need to stop letting it drag their show down and write for it.

[wakko]

Drop 205 and Main Event when its contract is over. Drop Raw to 2 hours. Combine each shows belts so the champion goes back and forth when challenged/feuding with a wrestler from set roster. Don't use the same wrestlers every week, cycle them. That way you have a deeper roster that actually matters.

Sure I could think of others I would do, but that's what I have off the top of my head.

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

It's not spread too thin.

They just don't put the appropriate amount of effort in. It's a reflection on what an out of touch, lazy sack of garbage Vince McMahon has become.

[nisidhe]

I am willing to wager that the current main roster is no larger than the roster in place in, say, 1987; if anything, it's smaller. Yet, with the current roster, they're running a split touring schedule and five hours of live TV each week. In 1987, there was one set of championships and two, maybe three hours of taped but progressive TV per week (which featured enhancement talent), _plus_ a 90-minute _SNME_ broadcast _maybe_ once a month during the old TV season. Imagine only being able to see your favourites (non-Hogan) once a month or, at best, every two weeks.