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- Aug 18, 2008
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By most accounts RAW this week was...pretty great. The changes can already be seen in WWE as a whole. People are toning themselves down from the overly cartoon gimmicks (even in NXT 2.0) matches are delivering, and so on.
But it has only been one week.
What's it going to take to get you back as a regular WWE fan? Three weeks of consistency? Two months? Six? A year?
Or are you already back on board? Or never even got off board to begin with?
I was saying for a couple weeks now that most of the major problems in WWE are institutional, and not something new leadership are going to address, and in some cases not realize are problems to begin with. On top of that, HHH, can't just make sweeping changes. We all want to see Kevin Dunn gone, and lots of talent hate Dunn...but the man still has massive political pull backstage and there's a real chance that if he goes, the production team will not be happy about it.
Also, WWE is by all business metrics a massive success. There's considerations that HHH can't just start changing everything when everything that goes on now makes investors millions.
That said, changes are happening.
There's tons of people on this board that don't watch WWE anymore at all, some who might check in every other PPV, some that I know the last PPV they watched was the Royal Rumble, and then some (personally before the Rumble the last WWE I watched was WrestleMania)
There's also a subset of fans here who just don't do the weekly wrestling thing. But all that aside, what's the threshold that WWE needs for you to tune in enough to call you a fan?
For me, on top of getting the titles off Reigns (and keeping them off) I'd need to hear that WWE's been consistently good from now until probably late into the road to wrestlemania, 6 months about. There's been far too many instances of "No no! WWE is good now!" over the past decade (mostly the past 5 years) only for the quality to dip again. (man I remember getting excited that Heyman was running RAW).
But it has only been one week.
What's it going to take to get you back as a regular WWE fan? Three weeks of consistency? Two months? Six? A year?
Or are you already back on board? Or never even got off board to begin with?
I was saying for a couple weeks now that most of the major problems in WWE are institutional, and not something new leadership are going to address, and in some cases not realize are problems to begin with. On top of that, HHH, can't just make sweeping changes. We all want to see Kevin Dunn gone, and lots of talent hate Dunn...but the man still has massive political pull backstage and there's a real chance that if he goes, the production team will not be happy about it.
Also, WWE is by all business metrics a massive success. There's considerations that HHH can't just start changing everything when everything that goes on now makes investors millions.
That said, changes are happening.
There's tons of people on this board that don't watch WWE anymore at all, some who might check in every other PPV, some that I know the last PPV they watched was the Royal Rumble, and then some (personally before the Rumble the last WWE I watched was WrestleMania)
There's also a subset of fans here who just don't do the weekly wrestling thing. But all that aside, what's the threshold that WWE needs for you to tune in enough to call you a fan?
For me, on top of getting the titles off Reigns (and keeping them off) I'd need to hear that WWE's been consistently good from now until probably late into the road to wrestlemania, 6 months about. There's been far too many instances of "No no! WWE is good now!" over the past decade (mostly the past 5 years) only for the quality to dip again. (man I remember getting excited that Heyman was running RAW).
