You inherit WWE...

[HRH The KING]

1- Eliminate all non-wrestling ventures such as the movie division.
2- Hire wrestling bookers rather than TV writers.
3- Fire the dead weight and hire more useful talents
4- Abandon the "hoss" obsession.
5- Change the scratch icon to a new "WWE" logo.
6- Fund independent federations to act as feeders for WWE talent
7- Unify the brands.
8- Establish clear divisions in the WWE, which shall be:

WWE Heavyweight Championship - Main-eventers
WWE Intercontinental Championship - Mid-carders

WWE Tag Team Championship - Dedicated permanant teams. No temporary pairings of singles wrestlers, tag teams must have a joint name, attire, music and moves.

WWE Cruiserweight Championship - For smaller wrestlers.

The divisions never cross over. Upward mobility from the mid-card to the main-event will be allowed.

9- Bring back the classic WWE Championship, WWE Intercontinental and WWE Tag Team belts.

10 - Scrap the "Diva" concept.
11- Bring back mouthpieces/managers.
12- Bring back dedicated jobbers.
13- Use cable ring ropes.
14- Use the following PPV schedule:

PPV Calendar.

January- WWE Royal Rumble
Febuary- WWE Cyber Sunday

March/April- WWE WrestleMania (reintroduce the battle royal and trophy for guys not involved in matches).

May- WWE The Great American Bash.
June- WWE King Of The Ring (tournament offers title match for the winner).
July- WWE Road Wild (not at the biker rally, just the name is used.)
August- WWE SummerSlam
September- WWE PPV at the Hammerstein Ballroom
October- WWE Halloween Havoc (plus WarGames).
November- WWE Survivor Series
December- WWE Starrcade

15- Introduce more realistic promos and interviews.
16- Shift to a faster, more violent in-ring style.
17- Eliminate the "Jobber To The Stars" concept.

18- Introduce cheerleader-like "Nitro Girls" to add T/A, pose for magazines, do PR, and entertain the crowd. They will never be featured in angles or storylines.

19- Drop kayfabe when WWE wrestlers do mainstream interviews. All wrestlers doing interviews should be polite and speak with a coherant intelligent voice and dress modestly.

20- Scrap women's wrestling.

21- Establish an official WWE Wrestling School offering world-class training and facilities. This shall also include mic work and speaking.

22- Avoid risque angles and storylines which cast the company in a bad light.

23- Establish strict quality control for talent, gimmicks, angles and storylines.

24- Drop the use of the giant ramp.

25- "Face Play By Play/Heel Color Commentator" model reintroduced.

26- Bring in Mexican and Japanese wrestlers as special attractions and allow them to wrestle their native style with each other or WWE workers who are capable.

27- Rotation system used with the roster, giving talent time-off to rest and recharge after finishing major angles and storylines, which keeps the product and the talent fresh.

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

I agree with everything on your list except number 20. Women's wrestling can be entertaining if it's taken seriously.

[HRH The KING]

OK, I'll amend #20

20- Establish and maintain a WWE Women's Championship division consisting only of capable workers.

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

hrhtheking said:

OK, I'll amend #20

20- Establish and maintain a WWE Women's Championship division consisting only of capable workers.

See that I can get behind. Mickie James and Victoria=Good.
Torrie Wilson and Candice Michelle=Bad.

[Jason Todd Grisham]

hrhtheking said:

2- Hire wrestling bookers rather than TV writers.
7- Unify the brands.
12- Bring back dedicated jobbers.
16- Shift to a faster, more violent in-ring style.

These are the only ones I disagree with. First of all Wrestling bookers may have a better idea, but the problem is that they are stuck in a certain mindset. I'd want to keep some around to drive the other guys in the right area, but largely they keep things the same. The real issue is that WWE has sitcom rejects.

I don't see why you would want to unify the brands. It gives you more talent. If you unify the brands you would have to fire a conciderable amount and people like Booker T or Finlay wouldn't have had a chance. The issue isn't the brand extension per se, but that it hasn't been done properly enough.

When you have a dedicated jobber the attentive viewer goes, "Oh it's a jobber this guy will win." Why do you want that? On television you want to be able to hook the viewer. Being repedative isn't going to do it. I'd rather have more compedative matches. That way a win loss record will mean more.

We don't need a faster or more violent in ring style, we need better wrestlers with psychology. The rules on WWE's in ring style are fine. You don't want too many injuries. Save the truly violent stuff for pay per view or a big match. Like they do now. They have the right idea, it's just not being implemented properly.

[HRH The KING]

These are the only ones I disagree with. First of all Wrestling bookers may have a better idea, but the problem is that they are stuck in a certain mindset. I'd want to keep some around to drive the other guys in the right area, but largely they keep things the same. The real issue is that WWE has sitcom rejects.

Absolutely I would advocate a mix of old school bookers with more media savvy personnel.

I don't see why you would want to unify the brands. It gives you more talent. If you unify the brands you would have to fire a conciderable amount and people like Booker T or Finlay wouldn't have had a chance. The issue isn't the brand extension per se, but that it hasn't been done properly enough.

I'm not sure it does give you more talent. I think it rather overstretches the rosters and leads to staleness. Having more talent on one roster gives some a chance to rest ever so often since the burden of carrying the company could fall to a wider group of talent.

When you have a dedicated jobber the attentive viewer goes, "Oh it's a jobber this guy will win." Why do you want that? On television you want to be able to hook the viewer. Being repedative isn't going to do it. I'd rather have more compedative matches. That way a win loss record will mean more.

The jobbers don't have to be like Playboy Buddy Rose who just get killed without any offence. But having a bunch of no-names who although talented will never win will save guys like Val Venis from jobbing endlessly. This will also allow WWE to save better more competitive matches for PPV.

We don't need a faster or more violent in ring style, we need better wrestlers with psychology. The rules on WWE's in ring style are fine. You don't want too many injuries. Save the truly violent stuff for pay per view or a big match. Like they do now. They have the right idea, it's just not being implemented properly.

Absolutely. A more violent style for big matches. I'm not saying all matches have to be like that. Injuries happen. HHH blew his knee doing a spinebuster and before that, he popped his quad just running across the ring.

[Jason Todd Grisham]

It seems like we are both coming from the same place but have different solutions. I'd say keep the brands split but actually supply each with an adequate roster. As for hireing jobbers you seem to have said the same thing I did, just hire them from the town you're in? I'd only do that when it's necessary though, really I hate the concept of jobbers. I would want everyone in my promotion look like a contender, if they weren't why are they still there?

[HRH The KING]

It seems like we are both coming from the same place but have different solutions. I'd say keep the brands split but actually supply each with an adequate roster.

The only way I'd support a brand split is if each brand was kayfabe operated as a seperate company. So one brand would be WWE, the other would be WCW and maybe a revamped ECW along the ONS model, because I don't like the idea of having a RAW World Champion and SmackDOWN World Champion, but I'd be perfectly willing to accept a WWE Champion and WCW Champion.

As for hireing jobbers you seem to have said the same thing I did, just hire them from the town you're in? I'd only do that when it's necessary though, really I hate the concept of jobbers. I would want everyone in my promotion look like a contender, if they weren't why are they still there?

Well I wouldn't advocate putting the jobbers on RAW or SmackDOWN or certainly not on a PPV, but perhaps for the weekend highlight shows which could be taped before the main brand shows.

[MolotovMocktail]

I must disagree with #22. Eric Bischoff says it best in his book title: Controversy Creates Cash. The WWF was on top of the world back when it had all those risque storylines. DX, Stone Cold, Godfather, Val Venis, and sexy strip matches all brought the ratings through the roof. The PTC may have been a bunch of liars and idiots, but they gave the company lots of free publicity. People don't like to be told what they can and can't see, so they would watch just to spite humorless censor monkeys and militant feminists who say wrestling will doom society. The trick is, do it right without turning it into wrestlecrap. Katie Vick was certainly risque, but it was the worst angle in wrestling history. Do things that push the envelope, but make the audience want to come back for more.

[Red 'n' Black Reggie]

make johnny ace go one on one with- DE UNDATEKKAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FHgrad99]

Here are my ideas:

-Fire Johnny Ace and make him leave Stamford, CT via Catapault, a la Rex Banner from the Simpsons. Replace somebody who isn't obsessed with big men and breasts.

-Give the divas who either don't wrestle or aren't good wrestlers an ultimatum: go to OVW for training or leave the WWE.

-Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer get full creative control over ECW. WWE rejects like Test, Hardcore Holly, Bobby Lashley and the like will be either fired or reassigned to other brands. Heyman and Dreamer get the final say as it relates to who gets added and removed from the ECW brand.

-Listen to the fans. There is no better gauge to determine what works and what doesn't work.

-Get rid of the lengthy in ring segments that doesn't involve a match.

-Make the shows about the wrestling and not "entertainment." Actual wrestling is more entertaining than all of the stuff that is being passed off as "entertainment."

-Listen to the wrestlers. Ask them what is working and what isn't working for them.

-Fire all of the "Hollywood" writers. Hire guys who have prior experience in wrestling to write the shows.

-Make the Cruiserweight and Tag Team divisions mean something. Try to bring in more teams.

-Keep the shows unpredictable. Keep the fans guessing.

[HRH The KING]

I must disagree with #22. Eric Bischoff says it best in his book title: Controversy Creates Cash. The WWF was on top of the world back when it had all those risque storylines. DX, Stone Cold, Godfather, Val Venis, and sexy strip matches all brought the ratings through the roof. The PTC may have been a bunch of liars and idiots, but they gave the company lots of free publicity. People don't like to be told what they can and can't see, so they would watch just to spite humorless censor monkeys and militant feminists who say wrestling will doom society. The trick is, do it right without turning it into wrestlecrap. Katie Vick was certainly risque, but it was the worst angle in wrestling history. Do things that push the envelope, but make the audience want to come back for more.

The PTC was generally a parody of a group far more sinister than the WWE IMO. By "risque" I mean angles and storylines like Katie Vick, the exploitation of Eddie etc....that can only bring a bad image to the company.