- 08/03/2007 (2:10:16 pm)
- Georgiann Makropoulos
Let us hear from you. MORE ADDED. thanks..
Great subject and here are my ideas.
The talent is thinning out at this time.They have to cut out Smackdown and ECW and incorporate them into the RAW brand.If they want to keep Smackdown,make it a complete WWE show with the full roster.Trim the roster so that the talent is worthy of being in WWE.
Bring back some integrity and trust of the fans. People are very turned off at what happened in Fayetteville,GA. I am one of them. Toughen up the Wellness Policy so that not as many fall through the cracks. I personally do not want to see Hercules all the time. I WANT TO SEE LEGITIMATE WRESTLERS!!
Cut out the BS matches featuring divas swinging pillows and midgets winning the cruiserweight title.What a slap in the face of all the cruisers that they do have.If you are going to have women,train them as wrestlers instead of models.
Bring out the best of their youth and utilize them correctly.You have so much young talent in Carlito, Mr. Kennedy, Cade and Murdock, Benjamin,and Orton. Intersperse them with the legends and start feuds that go some where like in the old days.
For God Sakes,let Cena lose the title to someone coming up.Now is the time to have Orton win the belt and start some good feuds with HHH after Summerslam. These could be classics!!I think Kennedy could be the next Ric Flair if they work with him.
Take them off of Monday night because football season is coming and the ratings drop naturally anyway.Move them to Tuesday night where the competition isn't as strong right now.Let them get some mommentum and after football season,change them back to Mondays.
Its time that Vince steps down and let the younger McMahon's take over because they may have a true sense of what the people want to watch now. Vince and Hogan brought wrestling back, Vince has dropped the ball. If the kids do not have it by now, it isn't going to last long anyway!! Vince is in his 60's and it is time he spends time being Grandfather.
I am just throwing some ideas out there. I have been a wrestling fan since I was seven years old. This means I have been watching for 39 years. I miss Bruno, Pedro. Strongbow, Tanaka and Fuji but I know that wrestling has evolved with the times. WWE could take some of their history and learn from it. Only time will tell what will happen next.
First off for raw is one very important aspect UNPREDICTABILITY I know every thing that is going to happen and I know when a squash is coming when a low man on the totem pole is going to lose they tell you the winner basicly before it begins by pairing unbelieveable combos that are not equal except monday with carlito winning but that is an exception.
third on smackdown have the cruserweight division have faster paced high impact matches withless grappling and more innovative moves and most importantly let them loose what i mean by that and im not sure anyone remembers but a few years ago they told talent to slow the pace down its cruiserweight key word "cruiser" which in essence is to cruise.
raw should have a multiple level system with the proving grounds being the ic title making the ic in effect the unofficial key to the wwe title that doesnt mean small guys dont get it but they get it less give it to a talent that can carry it the right way and take the world title and give it to someone who can hold it correctly wink wink khali and someone besides batista.
move randy orton to smackdown he has had on point matches for months which were exciting to say the least and would do well with the talent already there who he mixes better with in my opinion that last match with edge on raw was grrrreeeattt!!!
get a storylinewriter who has worked in the business and a talent agent who knows what hes doing lance storm comes to mind let storlines build too often they have a match too soon and the repetitive nature every ppv khali vs cena for example kills what is otherwise fine stop scripting lines people like burke can talk with the best of em and everyone else can tough it out.
make smackdown the proving grounds raw the main stage and ecw the independents what more can i say.
The wwe is an entity it wont listen to us i guess trying and failing is better than not and failing but still its failing its lofty that the wwe would ever institute one of these changes
that all us fans really want the unknown
we want an unpredictable match
-3 way cage jeff hardy vs rey mysterio vs santino marella
we want one that is purely ubsurd
- boogeyman and snitzky well call them the nightmare vs the highlanders
we want it extreme
cm punk vs sandman -barb wire match
we want a classic
london and kendrick vs hass and benjamin tlc
we want the ladies
melina vs victoria 2 out of 3 pinfalls special ref val venis
we want 3rd generation
randy orton vs carlito ( give one the ic ) make it a ladder match
we want ghetto
booker T (reinvented as "the ghetto king"....... can you diggeth it suckah ) and super crazy
(reinvented as "super crazy cool"...... vaminos esse) vs cryme tyme - tornado tag match
we want the show
hhh vs john cena
and last but not least we want for the world title ....
lashley runs the gauntlet ( jobber jobber etc you know the deal until the last opponent ) hbk's glorious return
The point being classic is better than what we are getting and so is new better than stale its up to the wwe to do something and quik before they lose all the casual fans they really want entertainment laughs intense fights and backstage antics the hardcore will never stop watching they miss it here or there but the andres hogans harts rocks austins flairs blassies and many many more have cemented there love and forever made them fans !! casual fan they will leave you in a second if you miss one beat and the wwe is learning that now.
Georgiann,
I read the thought on what the WWE feel would help and I hope I am not to late to give my opinion on the subject.
1. I would not have 3 different "brands" as WWE calls it. The WWE needs to have all wrestlers work the same shows. They could still do the multi house shows. There is enough talent to put out there and have the house show schedule that they have now. If someone is not on TV full time it still gives them a chance to get work in.
2. One World Champion and one World Tag Team Champion. Having all those titles is a waste of time. Make the titles mean something again. I like keeping the I.C. and United States Titles. With those belts you can get rid of the Cruiserweight Title. The I.C. belt could be the title that the crusierweight fight for. I think the U.S. Title could be the belt as the next step for the world championship.
3. Hollywood writers.....You need wrestling minds putting things together. I hate knowing that someone who just wrote the reason why Ross and Rachel are fight on this weeks Friends is writing for the greatest sport in the world. I feel a interview should come from the heart and not scripted out for them. Fans are not stupid they know what comes from the heart and what is fake. Look back at history some of the best talkers spoke from the heart. When Ole Anderson turned heel on Thunderbolt Patterson you believed that Ole was going to destory Patterson. When Dusty talked about being a son of a plummer you believed. Vince needs to have wrestling people write for him. He has all these great road agents (Anderson, Steamboat, Windham, etc) who could book. How about a booking team of Vince, Dusty Rhodes, Barry Windham and either Triple H or Shawn Michaels. The Hollywood writers really bothers me!!!
4. The young talent down in OVW and the new FCW need to keep the same gimmick when they get called up. You have young talent doing one gimmick and they get called up and their gimmick totally changes. The talent just isn't there anymore. The are fewer diamonds in the rough. Plus the writers get tired of the young talent if they cant get over. One website a few months ago compared the writers and young talent to a kid with a new toy. Once the writers grow tired of the new toy they just throw the young talent in the toy box and forget about them.
4a. No talent Divas....These women are beautiful but thats it. The ladies who can wrestle are buried on TV. I understand sex sells and I love to look at a beautiful lady but when the fans are quiet or going out and buying a nacho and beer during a "Divas" match that has to tell the powers that be something. There are alot of great looking and good female wrestlers on the indies. The Diva search is a total joke!!!!!!
5. Vince needs to use old gimmick matches. I would love to see War Games or Bunkhouse Matches. I always read if Vince didn't create it he doesn't want to use it. Vince sometimes everybody needs to put their ego in check. Nobody will not think less of you. War Games would be great if you had the right wrestlers in it.
6. Everybody looks the same. You have jacked up wrestlers with bodybuilder looks. There is to much show and not enough go with these wrestlers. To use a Ric Flair quote he used on Lex Lugar million dollar body and 10 cent talent. I often ask myself and some of my friends would guys like Dick Murdoch, Blackjack Mulligan, Dick The Bruiser make it today in wrestling.
These are just a few of my opinions. I want to wrestling business to change for the better. This is the greatest sport in the world. So much history and tradition and it need to stay strong
Shawn A. Belsterling
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1. Who are they targeting? kids, long time fans, "The Attitude Fans." they need to make up there minds.
2. I'm sick of the same spots/ moves over and over. ex. Kane has been using
that horrible looking top rope Clothesline for 10 yrs. Even taker stopped
the move we call "old school" for some time. Hence why we call it Old
School. Kane how about a leg drop shoulder block or God for Bid a spear from
the top. Every top star does the same spots even at the PPV's, except Mania.
where they will add or dust off a move for the night.
3. Lets get rid of the cruiserweight title, because lets face it there
really is no division and lets incorporate a new TV. title like WCW had that
can be defended on either show. 1st champ should be CM Punk so they can test
him in a broader market vs. Noble or Taylor (if you must Chavo.)
4. Renew the prestige and importance of IC belt.
5. Good Story Lines, they don't need to push the envelope just tell a story.
Booker / Lawler was starting to unfold well even though I hat the King
Gimmick and I hate Lawler, but they were setting that up well and had the
time to develop it before Summer slam, but they kill it on Raw last week.
They can talk unscripted and didn't need to square off at all until the PPV.
there was even room to bring Queen Shamell and maybe a new/old/current Diva
not to wrestle just to propel the story line ( I would of liked to have seen
Sunny make a short return as Lawler answer to Queen Sharmel.
6. Put the woman matches on ECW and Smackdown, not on RAW.
7. Managers not interpreters.
8. The Backstage interview needs to be more than the question how do you
feel about.... or what are your thoughts on... I want the broadcast
journalists back and get rid of the scrawny geek and the dumb woman
interviewers. You need someone strong and not Pathetic. For ex. like Goldie
Locks was in early TNA.
9. Can we move JBL to Raw instead of Lawler. We need a rest he is not funny
and adds no new dimension to the in ring action.
10. Teddy Long has overstayed his welcome. NO NO NO Vicky. This is where you
put Jerry Lawler fans support him and some know he use to book it looks a
lot more legit than Holla Holla Holla.
11. Booker T. and Monty Brown should be the Ghetto Kings. not Super
Crazy.(Good fan Idea though)
12. Flair and Hardy need title runs. The pop they receives is 80's like.
They can't hurt your buy rate more than Batista/ Khali.
13. Less Vince is better. You got all you can with the boss employee
storyline.
14. I want Cena vs Sid. Bring Sid in like they did in old ECW with a manager
(maybe Matt Striker) and the stretcher. After that program Sid vs Orton
Legend Killer.
Just a start there is a lot that needs to be changed
From: MKS.



