How to fix the WWE...

[PsychoGoatee]

WWE has hit rock bottom these last couple months. December to Dismember was a disaster, and the following ECW episode showed how lost the brand is without Heyman and Big Show.

Now we have Triple H getting injured at NYR, and a Raw where they just don't know what to do anymore. Boring, unintelligible Khali and Umaga get pushes, lame Rosie/Trump joke matches, not much good stuff happening.

Smackdown is doing great compated to the other brands, but really, it's nothing to write home about either. It is the best WWE brand at the moment, but only because the other two have sunk so low.

Of course, there's still good stuff. The IC title scene is safe with Hardy and Nitro, and guys like Super Crazy and Carlito could always use the belt. Smackdown has great tag-champs with Londrick, and a solid midcard. ECW has the best babyface in WWE, RVD, my favorite old maniac Sabu, and the limitless potential of CM Punk.

WWE just needs to put together a solid main event scene to make the shows exciting again. Make HBK, RVD, and Benoit the champions on their respective shows. The epic title defenses they would all put on would single-handedly save the WWE.

After a good five months of those three icons, move to the next generation. Make Orton, CM Punk, and Kennedy the champions of the three brands... then WWE will have a chance again.
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[carter 15]

How would you fix the wwe? IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU WOULD FIX THE WWE


(i.e. somehow sign the rock, everything else becomes instantly fixd)

[WWHHHD]

Its not broken!!! From September up until Royal Rumble the WWE is always slow because they are up against football. Now they are setting up for WM. And like I ALWAYS say Vince keeps on making money so if he keeps on doing that he will be just fine.

[Lt. Palumbo]

Jericho return, 'you've been led to believe that mediocrity is greatness' speech

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

Put more former wrestlers on creative (It worked for Smackdown)

Bring in some faces that are new to WWE BUT NOT TO THE WRESTLING BUSINESS In other words, guys who have earned the spot and know what they are doing in the ring.

Actually do what they claim they have done....make the 3 bands truly seperate and different.

And if Jericho could come back and have his heart in it, I will 2nd that.

Same with the Rock, but Jericho is more likely.

[leemir]

Bring in talented Wrestlers, none of this development crap. Even they sign a great talent they tone him down so he's not the same in WWE.

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

An Orton title reign already FAILED MISERABLY, and no one outside of the smarks would be happy with a Kennedy run when guys like Taker and Benoit are still around on SD.

[Hassan bin Sober]

1. Stop refering o the different brands as "brands" and instead refer to them as "leagues".

2. Drop the ECW name and simply rename it "EXTREME". ECW is dead. The EXREME logo would be in the ECW styled lettering however.

3. Unify the WWE, WWE World Heavweight, and ECW titles into an Undisputed Triple Crown title.

4. Do away with the IC and U.S. titles. They have become a joke.

5. Create 3 new titles: a RAW, Smackdown!, and EXTREME title to act as the main championship for each respective league.

6. Make it so Undisputed Triple Crown would only be defended ONCE a year at Wrestlemania.

As such the Undisputed Triple Crown champion would most likely also be champion of his respective brand. The Undisputed Triple Crown champion would only actually come out with the 3 belts that make up the Undisputed Triple Crown on special occassions.

This would be done to prevent the the league championship in the Undisputed Triple Crown champion's league from becoming a secondary title.

7. Create a set of new tag team titles for EACH league. In addition, create a worth tag team division for each league. I suppose this may involve simply renaming the WWE and World Tag Team titles in RAW and Smackdown's case.

8. Develop a worthy women's division with actual wrestlers rather than glorified strippers and underwear models. The title would remain in the RAW league.

9. Develop a worthy x-division like crusierweight division. The title would remain in the Smackdown! league.

10. See to it that the EXTREME league is actually extreme.

[The Portable Stove]

Well, the first rule of fixing anything is that you need duct tape.

See, you tie Johnny Ace up with the duct tape and find someone who can actually find talent. Second, with that new talent, make sure they end up on RAW. Third, find Hardcore Wrestlers, and put them in ECW. Finally, make ALL matches in ECW "Extreme Rules".

[Hassan bin Sober]

Oh here is another one:

11. Start taping most of the Extreme/ECW matches at the same place like TNA does Impact.

[wolfe3001]

madhatter2k said:

1. Stop refering o the different brands as "brands" and instead refer to them as "leagues".

2. Drop the ECW name and simply rename it "EXTREME". ECW is dead. The EXREME logo would be in the ECW styled lettering however.

3. Unify the WWE, WWE World Heavweight, and ECW titles into an Undisputed Triple Crown title.

4. Do away with the IC and U.S. titles. They have become a joke.

5. Create 3 new titles: a RAW, Smackdown!, and EXTREME title to act as the main championship for each respective league.

6. Make it so Undisputed Triple Crown would only be defended ONCE a year at Wrestlemania.

As such the Undisputed Triple Crown champion would most likely also be champion of his respective brand. The Undisputed Triple Crown champion would only actually come out with the 3 belts that make up the Undisputed Triple Crown on special occassions.

This would be done to prevent the the league championship in the Undisputed Triple Crown champion's league from becoming a secondary title.

7. Create a set of new tag team titles for EACH league. In addition, create a worth tag team division for each league. I suppose this may involve simply renaming the WWE and World Tag Team titles in RAW and Smackdown's case.

8. Develop a worthy women's division with actual wrestlers rather than glorified strippers and underwear models. The title would remain in the RAW league.

9. Develop a worthy x-division like crusierweight division. The title would remain in the Smackdown! league.

10. See to it that the EXTREME league is actually extreme.

Almost all of those ideas are realistic, exciting, and would bring in more fans.

None of them will be exectuted by WWE.

[leemir]

I really like everything mAd HaTtEr2k especially the Triple Crown thing at 'Mania, I think that make WWE really exciting.

Oh & bring in Lucha Libre!

[Brain Of F'n J]

Step 1: Fire a lot of people. Including Johnny Ace, the entire Creative staff, and 3/4 of the roster.

Step 2: Time for a talent raid. BIG TIME.

Step 3: Hire WRESTLING BOOKERS and make people who CAN book do so. Dusty, Raven, Heyman, Flair, Dreamer, Lawler. There's a booking core.

Step 4: Smackdown+ECW=new extreme, wrestling-focused brand. Raw=Sportz Entertainment.

Jed Shaffer
~I'm only copying the plan they did following the "New Generation". It worked once.

[Avalanche Alvarez]

How to fix the WWE.

(Shuffles index cards, clears throat, looks into the camera)









FIRE THE F***ING WRITERS AND GET BACK TO ACTUALLY WRESTLING!

(Throws cards down on the floor)

Hit my damn music!

(Exits room to "Do You Know The Muffin Man?")

[American Nightmare]

its no simpler than listening to the crowd. They want Undertaker, give em undertaker. They want CM Punk, give em Punk. They want RVD as champ, give it to em. Hell, if they want Donald vs Rosie, give it to em. The issue here is to stop booking to appease Vince and start booking to appease your entire audience.

[Chainsaw]

justinothervictim said:

Jericho return, 'you've been led to believe that mediocrity is greatness' speech

suicidemow said:

its no simpler than listening to the crowd. They want Undertaker, give em undertaker. They want CM Punk, give em Punk. They want RVD as champ, give it to em. Hell, if they want Donald vs Rosie, give it to em. The issue here is to stop booking to appease Vince and start booking to appease your entire audience.

You both win some Internet.

[THE REDNECK BADASS]

1 Way To Fix WWE is put some duct tape on it and then that will stop the leak lol just had to add some humor into this thread

[kwydjebo]

A lot of you are making some great suggestions.

However "Get some talent" seems to be a popular suggestion, however there is one problem with that. That problem is, the WWE HAS talent, they either just don't know how, or choose not to use it.

Heck last week I watched Smackdown for the first time in ages, and really enjoyed what they had. The "Beat the clock" challenge produced some good matches and a storyline or two progressed.

How would I fix things (Keeping in mind I mainly watch RAW, so most of my suggestions will be geared towards that end)

First off, look at what was wrong with last night's show.
Triple H was hurst, so why show the slow mo vignette of that match and injury 5 times?
Once at the top of the show as part of the PPV Recap, and again before Rated RKO came out.

Second, get the tag belts off Rated RKO. There is no point in having title belts if the champ(s) are mired in a feud where the belts don't matter. Have any of the teams get the belts ASAP (Heck have Micheals cost them the belts so they save face), and then show all the teams are hungry for the gold. Have at least one tag match per RAW (I mean real tag matches, with teams that want the belt, not Just Cena and whoever vs some doofs) and show the tag champs at least every other week, either in action, or scouting the competition, or doing some promo piece.

Third, the IC belt. Someone suggested "do away with the IC belt, it means nothing" I say, keep the belt, but make it mean something. Like with the tag belts, show several wrestlers who WANT the IC belt. Have at least one or two wrestlers who we focus on as the number one threat to the Champ,l and have the champ visable. sure maybe miss the odd week when you got a card that's pretty full, but never prior to a PPV, and not chronically (The same goes for the tag and women's belt).

Fourth, Give the Champ the top spot. Okay Cena may not be your favorite, but he is the champ, so if he's done for the night by the end of the first hour (As was the case MANY Mondays in 2006) what does that say about the belt? The second hour of RAW should have "Big Poochie Booking". (From the Simpsons, Poochie was the dog that was added to the "Cartoon" team of Itchy and Scratchy, and Homer did the voice. When Poochie failed to get over with fans, Homer's suggestion "Have Poochie in every scene, and when he's not in a scene have all the other characters ask "Where's Poochie". A once popular internet wrestling recapper (CRZ, now retired from recapping) refered to Kevin Nash as Big Poochie because when he had the book in WCW this was how the storylines seemed to go). Every week show the champ, (If not in action then at least a promo) Show the challenger, and develop one or two future challengers, have them at the top of the card, and ready to go after the brass ring as soon as the Current title feud is done.
Heck look at smackdown. The entire show last week was about guys vying for a shot at the belt. We got some good matches, maybe pushed some feuds and such along, but the whole time, it was all about the Gold. Not About Vince, or anyone named McMahon. Not about DX.

Fifth....STORYLINES. Okay, angles and storylines are a part of wrestling, but they should add to the matches, and the final payoff. This is also how you build up guys and get them going to the bigger and better things. Yes some guys are more important than others. Yes not EVERYBODY can be on every show. So its real simple, have at least 4 (prefereably more) ongoing storylines with some of the superstars (Men, women, teams etc.). Don't gotta be fancy, and where possible try and make both sides look good. Now as time permits, storylines A and B may get every other RAW, trading time with Storylines C and D. The important thing is to A) Don't forget a storyline for weeks, then return to it (Because people forget, and sure the announcers can remind us what went on, but who reminds the live audience? And if the Audience is lost they won't react as well) and B) DOn't rush a storyline, Once upon a time there were only a few PPVs a year so storylines could take time to develop, then we got to one per month and storylines were rushed. If you have several storylines going, you can have have some payoff at a PPV while others are still building for the next one. Heck in 2006, the Trish/Mickie Storyline was exceedingly well done, and it took months (On a slow build) before it really started to pay off. Whoever booked that should get a bloody medal.

Sixth....TALENT, use it where it should be. Personally I like Carlito, a lot. I enjoy his inring work, and, on the Mic I think 9 times out of 10, He'll entertain me. Maria has the dumb girl schtick down cold and I think it really works well when interviewing someone who can play off it. Also look to developing talent for the future. Masters has the look, but he's kinda crappy on the mic. Have Flair take him under his wing (Or something like that). Kenny has great potential, why not have Rated RKO bring him in as their servant/Lackey/protege (Just make sure he learns from Edge and not the Black Hole of Heat that is Randy Orton.)

Well those are some of my Armchair Booking suggestions on how to make RAW (And the WWE in general) better for us the fans. Maybe you like some of my ideas, and maybe you think I'm on crack. Its all opinion at this point, and I just hope to hell that the WWE does something because last night was a CRAPPY show (Sure there were some good bits, but 15 mins of that Rosie/Trump thing.....)

DAMN! (Did Ron Simmons just throw that at the end to cap off the "angle" or was this all just an elaborate setup so that he could utter his famous phrase?)

[dennisisevil]

Get back to actual wrestling instead of lame paint by numbers comedy that has already been on every blog and potty humor jokes that even the guys who write for Nickelodeon got tired of 10 years ago. Don't get me wrong comedy does have a place in wrestling but not dominating the whole show.