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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
That little exercise also explains why I know more about who is doing what to whom in NJPW -- or at least care more -- than I do about the WWE.
It's got it's own issues (the random six-man matches start to get kind of blurry pretty quickly, the almost on-the-fly Heyman ECW feel to some of the undercard matchups) but on the whole it's simply a more interesting & entertaining product to me at this point.
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It's even worse being on the west coast feeds. I can hop on reddit and see all the results to see if the show is even worth watching. When I see that Smackdown has about 25 total mins of wrestling on a 2 hour show I feel the need/desire to watch it. I still record the shows but can't tell you the last time I pulled one of those recordings up to watch.
The best thing that the WWE does (IMO) is what prevents me from tuning in every week. Their promos before every match on a PPV tell you what you missed. For all the good these promo pieces do, it give you a great cliff notes version of what happened over 12+ hours of programming between PPVs and gives you an even better reason not to watch weekly. Almost a SportsCenter version of Sunday NFL action. Just the important shit and to me that is worth $9.99 a month.