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Originally Posted by molson
But what if you put the bookers of Ring of Honor (or pick whatever indy promotion you think is good), in charge of WWE, and they tried to book it just like ROH, would business improve?
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Maybe last year I would have answered yes, but today my answer would be no. The WWE's audience is based on the booking style they've done for the last 10 years. It would be hard to change this. Booking a more serious or elaborate style probably would turn off a lot of the people that watch to see Santino or Hornswoggle or other silliness so any gains would probably be offset by losses.
The only chance for TNA to have improved is when they had the opportunity to sign Heyman a few years ago. I think that would have generated enough buzz to change the viewing audience. But to change from someone to another person that the mainstream audience doesn't know? It's a multi year process. Look at TNA, they got rid of their albatross Russo a year ago and started putting together a much better product, and the ratings haven't changed at all. The general viewing audience doesn't notice the difference, unless there's an earth shattering moment that will get everybody's attention they're not really paying close enough attention to notice.