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Originally Posted by murrayyyyy
But how can they be interesting if they are never put on TV?
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Some of them, honestly, no amount of TV is ever going to make them more than they are. And that's basically roster filler.
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They spent almost on hour with the Shane thing and I haven't heard anyone who says god I want to see him wrestler.
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This is one of the problems WWE (or any company) has today: there's hardly anyone who says "I want to see him wrestle" about ANYBODY. Aside from the IWC/smarks, the average viewer doesn't really seem to give a crap who is in the ring or what they do.
I don't know if there IS "an answer" to be honest (this was an entire lunch time conversation with my home-from-school-sick kid today).
We don't have uber main eventers 'cause of .500 booking ... but who really wants a return to winning streaks built on beating jobbers on TV?
We don't have enough TV time to go around because rosters are too large ... but we complain about stale booking & repeat matchups.
We complain that everyone takes losses ... but where's the fun in never being surprised by an outcome?
My own thought, which might not work any better nor would it play well in the back, is that the mention of the Japanese touring model earlier might be the route to try. Put a limited number of people on TV in key spots on the card for 2-3 month cycles. Let them work limited house shows, fill those house shows (which feel utterly disconnected from TV to me anyway) with the guys not doing TV. Half the TV roster sticks around for the next cycle, swap in fresh(er) faces with a mixture of established names brought back from the house show roster and maybe a couple of guys who stood out in the midcard/filler matches during the last cycle. Repeat.
And even with THAT approach, a year or so goes before you're right back into the same matches we feel like we've already seen enough times.
Aside from that grander strategy thought I want to throw in one other thing that came up in my household discussion. The reaction to Reigns should probably be a warning to the WWE, because it isn't just about Reigns -- he doesn't suck nearly bad enough to draw the heat he's getting, he just doesn't -- the fans could (and likely would) shit on any number of guys the exact same way. Today's Roman Reigns could be Kevin Owens/Sammy Zayn/et al tomorrow.
edit to add: My closing thought in the household discussion was that we're probably lucky that we haven't returned full blast to the "cartoon days". And given the bizarre nature of the Lucha Underground premise yet it's getting decent response from the IWC, maybe that's what's next.