Vince McMahon and the WWE

As mentioned before, anything sports, I will blog.  Whether it be baseball, basketball, football or even the WWE, I'll do what I do best and write about it. 

For quite some time now, the WWE has been the top wrestling promotion, and yes, that means over TNA.  Even as the top wrestling promotion, there is no reason to back up and throw out a very weak product, but that's what the WWE is doing.  I have plenty of time to watch all of WWE's shows, RAW on Mondays, ECW on Tuesdays, Superstars on Thursdays, and Smackdown on Fridays, but I don't.  Why?  For the simple reason that it's not what it used to be.  I understand that times change, and Vince has to change his product to get the most money out of what is going to work best.  But come on.  The nonsense of having a PG program isn't working for me, or for the older fans that remember the Attitude era for that matter.  How can he fix this?  I've come up with a few solutions:

1. Stop treating the brands as if they are number one and number two.  I like the idea of having ECW as the stepping stone for new guys to get themselves face time and to get accustomed to the WWE, and I like having Superstars as a show where you can see performers from all three brands go against eachother.  But the biggest problem is treating RAW as if it is superior than Smackdown.  Yes, RAW has been on the air since the early '90s, but don't forget, at one time Smackdown was putting out a helluva better product back between 2003 to about 2005 or so.  Put the same amount of money and time in both shows, and you'll see a difference. 

2. Bring back Paul Heyman.  And why the hell not, bring back Eric Bischoff too.  Bring them back in a small role on screen, not as General Managers.  Let Paul write for Smackdown, and let Eric Bischoff write for RAW.  This will only help.  As Heyman and Bischoff are two very creative and intelligent minds that know how to get the people back.  You can still be drawing the under 15 audience, but with a little better of a show.  In a recent shoot interview, Heyman said that everytime he wrote a script, whether it was perfect or not, Vince would change it, and would encourage argument over it. 

I hope Heyman can handle that, because why would Vince not want you to fight for what you wrote?  Even if he is changing it, if you aren't showing raw emotion that what you're writing is best for the company and the right way to go, then you don't care about what you wrote.  If he changes it, and it flops, Vince will trust you a little more the next time.  You can't hate or blame Vince for being passionate about the product receiving his final word.  It's his baby, and ultimately, it's his decision. 

3. Work Randy Orton and Legacy together even more.  Randy Orton is not only the top heel, but the best wrestler at this moment in the WWE.  With how Randy and Batista grew and how much they learned just by being around Triple H and Ric Flair is amazing.  After spending time with Hardcore Holly, Cody Rhodes is now learning more by being around Orton.  Same as DiBiase.  Work in this Legacy group, and work the New Hart Foundation a bit more. 

These are just three small reasons that I think may help the WWE product, but are not even being close to being the only ones.  There is plenty more that can be done.  One thing the WWE can not worry about, is TNA.  Whether it's Dixie Carter running this ship, or Vince Russo steering, the ship isn't going into a great direction.  First, the World Elite, Main Event Mafia, and Frontline Coalition angle has Millionaire's Club and New Blood written all over it.  MEM has all of the older guys, except the Dudley's, that have made in the WCW and WWE.  Angle, Sting, Steiner, Nash and Booker, are all guys who have made millions of dollars and are veterans of the ring.  Throw in the younger up and coming guys in the other two groups, and you get the New Blood.  How did this work in the old WCW for Russo?  Not good at all.  Last time I checked, they were defunct.  You can not split the roster up this way.  There has to be a mix of ages in a group. 

Whatever TNA tries to do in the near future, no matter what happens, it won't mean anything to the WWE.  TNA will not be anywhere close to WWE unless they start traveling every single day and doing shows every single day.  At the present time, they do travel, just not even close to being enough.  TNA can not pay any of their performers the dollars that they would receive in the WWE.  Now, Carter may be paying out of pocket for the MEM, but that is a story in and of itself.  I do like the wrestling product that TNA is putting out there, but I don't think even with that working for them that they can hold a candle stick to the WWE.  Let's remember that again, with TNA's IMPACT! being taped down in Orlando, Florida every week, they only perform in front of maybe one thousand, if that.  'Nuff Said. 

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