What Would YOU Like to See if an WWE Alternative

[romanstylesiii]

I think a lot of us feel how the WWE is just so stale and formulaic.

Whether it be AEW or another company, anything you would like to see that is different?

For me, I miss the opening promos the WWE did in the late 80's/90's that happened before the show. Gave context and showed of the characters.

Also, since Mene Gene left in the early 90's, interviewers in the WWE have been told not to have any personality. Mene Gene was so great because not only could he carry a promo, he acted like a moral compass to heels and it told a way better story.

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I already have the alternative I have always wanted in LU and IMO is the true alternative because there is nothing that can replicate it without copying it exactly...companies have tried to take bits and pieces but see how is working for them ...HI Impact wrestling(waves)

Dragons
Time Travelers
tribal wars
decapitations
undercover cops
Car salesman
Mechanics
7ft giant snake men
Cannibalisim
literal incarnations of death and life

Stories that do things no ordinary wrestling company can do and all within a world in which anything can happen...like a mans head exploding at the god hand of a machine

All of it wrapped in IMO the best written televised wrestling show ever it embraces telling stories and imagination and I cannot ask for a more alternative wrestling product.

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I miss watching shows that don't have a thing to do with backstage politics. Ever since that started to get popular they have to throw a little bit of it in to the point where it's hard to escape. Man it sucks.

[Deleted]

I'd want a promotion that's pretty much like All In but without murder and penis Druids.

[MolotovMocktail]

I'd like to see it booked like late 80's/early 90's WWF. TV would be used to see the established guys squashing local enhancement wrestlers, but it's a vehicle to sell a PPV where we get to see first-time matches and major blow-offs for feuds that haven't happened on free TV, or matches that left a resolution open. PPV's would be spaced out as well, with the card being booked months in advance, and each match feeling special. Fans should be able to recite the card in their sleep, and care about every match, or at least most of them.

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MLW isn't perfect but it's a good template for weekly tv

[TGM]

Less videos of the promotion patting themselves on the back for being so progressive.

[celticjobber]

More character development. Segments like the old Million Dollar Man, Mr. Perfect, and Razor Ramon videos showing their characters outside the ring. And interview segments with an informed/interesting host like Mean Gene.

And I'd bring back jobber matches, maybe not a near-full show of them like old-school WWF. But perhaps one or two a week.

[DoubleDare]

Don't show the same exact video package of 6 wrestlers your bringing in, twice a show, 3 weeks in a row.
90s production, its crazy how great WWF production was in the mid, late 90s compared to now.

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The ideal for me would be something that basically is WWE, but without constant recaps and self-felating padding the shows out, better time management, storylines that regularly go deeper than, "Person A and Person B wrestle every week," nowhere near as much nostalgia pandering, and without an active contempt for its audience.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

All I really need is decent storytelling and an identity to be willing to follow a promotion. I watch companies that aren't WWE and the ones I'm gravitated to are all in some way strong promotions standing out on their own merits. LU with its "let's go all out on being a TV show and just f***ing do it" craziness, New Japan with its emphasis on in-ring storytelling and focusing on the matches, the outlandish wackiness of DDT, not so much ROH anymore but certainly at a time ROH. I hate to say "things that aren't WWE" but WWE has shapened its flaws into finely honed points that I'm sick of getting stabbed with, and WWE doesn't in the long run need to do all that much of a crzy thing to get me back.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Don’t become wwe lite, meaning don’t do what tna did and just push people because they were in wwe tv. I don’t need another Aaron Rex thank you.

Don’t talk about the wwe at all, don’t mock it, don’t parody it, don’t take shots at it.

Be different because if you try to be like it you’re just gonna look inferior.

And above all, don’t let Vince Russo anywhere near it.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Whatever they have in mind. It doesn’t have to be something specific, the more variety there is between promotions the better.

Like I enjoy Lucha Underground’s approach, but it’s a style only they can pull off. It would suck if that was the norm around the business, just as it would if everything was WWE style or everything was
strong style.

[willywonka666]

I started watching wrestling regularly in late 85 and I know that we can't go back to that, but I truly think that some of those things would work now-for instance

90 minutes for a program- for my SNME was so exciting and as Vince once said, he felt that was a good length

More interviews like the format on World championship Wrestling (the series) on WTBS in the 80s-with professionals in suits-make me feel this is important.

More wrestling and no authority figures unless it's a major deal

Less highspots, unless it's part of a big feud-they're given everybody everything and they're bored now

[Push R Truth]

A steady camera that doesn't give me a migraine when action is happening

[Squirrel Master]

Jan 9, 2019 13:39:17 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

I started watching wrestling regularly in late 85 and I know that we can't go back to that, but I truly think that some of those things would work now-for instance

90 minutes for a program- for my SNME was so exciting and as Vince once said, he felt that was a good length

More interviews like the format on World championship Wrestling (the series) on WTBS in the 80s-with professionals in suits-make me feel this is important.

More wrestling and no authority figures unless it's a major deal

Less highspots, unless it's part of a big feud-they're given everybody everything and they're bored now

I think the format of the syndicated weekly "Bill Watts Presents UWF" would work today.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Treating the belts as if they were important. I like how Japanese promotions track the number of defenses. I think it adds extra "weight" to a championship title match.

A title like the Smoky Mountain "Beat the Champ" title would also be fun.

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Honestly I thought Wrestling Society X was brilliant and I’d love to see something like that again.

[efarns]

Worker gimmicks who are modernly archetypical. Millenials, Gen X, Country, City, Red State, Blue State; whatever - You can do face/heel versions of each

Archetypical, because it's people being themselves, turned up a notch.

I think fans want someone they see avatars of themselves in beating up effigies of what they despise.

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Talent sinking or swimming based on their ability to cut a promo rather than lifelessly reciting a script.