Vince and WWE need to realize this...

[Guest justcoz]

WBF... The XFL... Smackdown Records... WWE Movies... When will Vince realize that he's already accomplished what he set out to do? He took over the U.S. wrestling scene. The territories were conqured. Vince McMahon's company has monopolized the industry. Pro wrestling morphed into "sports entertainment" just like he envisioned. His performers are pop culture stars, some icons.

 

The business will have it's peaks in popularity just like any other business. So WWE has lost it's appeal with the mainstream as of late in favor of reality programming like Survivor and it's imitators. Pro wrestling as a television staple will most definitely out last the Survivor phenomenon. Preserving wrestling's (or the art of sports entertainment) history is something that Vince should now set out to attempt.

 

WWE Confidential is perhaps one of the best things going right now regardless of it's company stance in it's coverage of certain stories. I'm in agreement with something JR said in his Ross Report though. It needs a better timeslot.

 

I also feel that we should get classic matches in addition to the show's current format and features.

 

Remember how Monday night's used to be for the wrestling fan? We'd pop down on the couch, flick back and forth between Nitro and Raw - and wrestling owned cable on Monday nights, threatened the "event" aspect of Monday Night Football and the business rode it's next wave in the ever so fickle world of pop culture? Then Nitro became unwatchable and WCW eventually was sold to WWE. No Nitro comeback when the WWF became weak. No more competition. Much of the appeal was lost and viewers went elsewhere rather than going straight to Raw.

 

WWE owns that WCW footage. From what I've seen on Confidential, with footage of Dusty and Flair winning their first NWA titles, much of the NWA footage I presume was acquired in the deal as well. Vince should continue trying to obtain the ECW library as well as the AWA, World Class, Mid South/UWF, Florida, Memphis, 50's/60's wrestling, etc.

 

Think about it. Even your friends and family who hate pro wrestling and don't watch now more than likely watched it at some point in their lives. My grandpap watched the Bruno Sammartino era. My uncle Bill lived in Georgia and followed the wrestling on TBS. My girlfriend's brother watched the Hogan, Rock n Wrestling era. My girlfriend's parents loved Nitro.

 

After the TNN ends the CSI following Raw promotion (like one of the most popular shows on network television needs a rub from HLA), WWE and TNN proundly announce, Wrestlemaniac Monday Nights. Viacom pushes well produced WWE ads like crazy with spots on CBS during NFL games, MTV, VH1, radio, etc. This could potentially be the savior of the relationship between Viacom and WWE.

 

8:00: WWE Confidential (with backstage interview, promo packages promoting the night's Raw and Thursday night Smackdown matches)

9:00: WWE Raw

11:05: The Best Damn WWE Moments Period... Hosted by Mick Foley, Dusty Rhodes, Jim Cornette and Bobby Heenan if he's recovering (he sounded okay on Meltzer's WOL)... Matches in their entirety ranging from Steamboat vs. Flair, Dusty vs. Superstar Billy Graham, Hogan vs. Andre, Austin vs. Bret Hart, Nirto/Raw angles, etc.

 

Monday Night Football soundly has wrestling to contest with. An audience who like the features on the stars of yesterday, out of ring sequences about the stars of today and classic moments will maybe perhaps stay tuned for Raw, watch the whole night through, click off at the end of MNF blowouts to watch Sammartino vs. Ivan Koloff, Kevin Nash throw Rey Mysterio into a production truck or a Nitro cruiserweight display.

 

I think it would work. Plus, maybe WWE can convince Viacom that there is an audience for a 24 hour wrestling channel and that could be the project which convinces Viacom to extend their contract for WWE programming and forget about the XFL and declining ratings...

 

Coz...

 

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[Guest MrRant]

It would be nice but Viacom will look at the ratings first to make their decision... then they will look at how much money Vince is making them etc.

 

Vince really doesn't have anything to prove himself with.

 

Executives don't care about the "cycle" and only care about the "bottomline"

[Guest BoboBrazil]

The only problem with these other ventures Vince does is that he doesn't put his all into them. He didn't spend the money to get big name players to play for the XFL or sports announcers. He signed one band to the music label and didn't really give them any good promotion at all, other than on Raw. We will have to wait and see about the movie studio.