You are secretly the son or daughter of Vinnie Mac and you get control of the company. How do you fix the dank mess that is WWE?
Wrestling was "cool" in the 80's, too, and it wasn't edgy at all.Get rid of the PG era.
What made wrestling cool was its edginess.
Step 1: kill Vince
Step 2: fire every writer
Step 3: bring in a true booker
Step 4: no more scripted promos, you tell the talent what they need to get across in the promo and let them figure it out
Step 5: no more hokey garbage characters (aka all of them). Back to real people playing an exaggerated version of themselves
Long story short, get rid of all the Hollywood scripted aspects, let the talents be themselves. Authenticity and believability are essential and forcing talents to memorize entire promos to the word and forcing them into a role gets you the current WWE. A stilted, no emotion pile of crap that everyone can tell is overproduced and no one buys into emotionally.
These are a good start. A few others -
- Get rid of the months "ppvs". They are poison for storyline purposes because they speed up what few storylines there are and cause the company to burn through matches. They also don't even bring in significant ppv money anymore.
- Either get rid of brand splits or do a hard brand split. Half assing it is the worst way to go. The WWE roster is not so big and talented that it can pull off completely separate brands, so I'd lean toward combining the roster. If there is a real roster split, then keep wrestlers apart for years due to the split and make jumping from one brand to another a rare and noteworhty event. This would also allow for WWE to actually have fantasy matches within its own company.
- Get a real developmental territory. NXT is a nice boutique promotion but it's pretty much been a failure as a developmental entity. Let NXT be its own brand and basically copy the model used before where developmental is run as its own promotion on a regional rather than national scale. Ideally, have two or three of these with different styles (workrate based, promo based etc.)so that wrestlers an get some variety before going to the main roster.
I don't think that WWE going back to the attitude era would work. The PG era staples need to be dropped but the attitude era doesn't really fit what most today would support, for better or worse. Let the top talents take it in a natural direction.
bring back the attitude era
no one in WWE has the charisma or appeal of the old stars. Stone Cold. The Rock. Even Shane was better.
Now the best we have is boring shit like Bray or Kevin Owens feuding or some crap like how Paul Heyman is an advocate for Roman now. The storylines suck.
I'd argue Vince and the creative have failed the NXT call ups more than the other way around.
His refusal to let them step right into big programs or get over right away has killed many of them. Seems like the M.O. for NXT creative call ups is big debut entrance followed by storyline against mid carder followed by quick title tease then bury the hell out of them.
I've said for years that WWE should do away with monthly PPV's. It kills feuds. Less PPV's makes them more meaningful + it makes matches on television meaningful, too. What the **** is the point of watching any match on Raw?
Vince will never do it, nor do I think whoever takes over after he dies will do it, but ideally you go back to WrestleMania, Summerslam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble.
They should also just keep it at one show per week, but that'll never happen. Heck, make it 3 hours of you'd like but get rid of the 2 hour Friday show.
Get rid of the brand split, get rid of the dual belts, too. Just go with a WWE Championship, Intercontinental Championship, Tag Team Championship, and Women's Championship.
Just about making things more simple, but again, WWE will never do these things.
I don't know about the 80s, but I do know ratings peaked in the Attitude Era based on the quick Google search I found. So unless you're suggesting that the "belie ability" suddenly died in 2000 when ratings started going into a descent, it's probably due to the fact that they started moving away from the edginess that made the Attitude Era wrestling fun to watch.Wrestling was "cool" in the 80's, too, and it wasn't edgy at all.
What makes wrestling cool is believability. Not the phoniness WWE portrays on a weekly basis with 99% of their talent.
What's meant by believability is the wrestlers themselves and how they're portrayed.I don't know about the 80s, but I do know ratings peaked in the Attitude Era based on the quick Google search I found. So unless you're suggesting that the "belie ability" suddenly died in 2000 when ratings started going into a descent, it's probably due to the fact that they started moving away from the edginess that made the Attitude Era wrestling fun to watch.
What sent ratings down in 2001 was the disastrous decision to turn Austin heel at Mania and the horrifically botched invasion angle, not no longer being allowed to do skits like Mark Henry having sex with a drag queen.I don't know about the 80s, but I do know ratings peaked in the Attitude Era based on the quick Google search I found. So unless you're suggesting that the "belie ability" suddenly died in 2000 when ratings started going into a descent, it's probably due to the fact that they started moving away from the edginess that made the Attitude Era wrestling fun to watch.