Mine - 4 hours long RAW!
Isn't SCSA Vince your favourite feud ever?I couldn't do one thing, it has to be re-built from the ground up. A COMPLETE shift.
Take the company private again.
Fire Kevin Dunn
Reduce the creative staff
Turn NXT into a viable developmental system where people actually LEARN things, so that maybe we can build our OWN stars.
See if I can get Jim Ross back as head of talent relations. If I can, return him to head broadcaster along with William Regal and tell them to present the product as if it's 100% real and a sport where wins and losses matter, heels are despicable and babyfaces are heroic, like every wrestling announcer used to before the modern age. If I can't, call up William Regal anyway and make due with Cole having a new announcing direction and hope it works, also search for qualified head of talent relations. I don't know if Heyman has done that or not, but he seems like he would fit.
Change the format of Raw - Doesn't always start with a boring 20 minute promo, the authority figure is ALWAYS a babyface, because heel authority figures don't make any sense, the authority figure is used sparingly and only when a decision needs to be made. Matches are booked in advance, so that it looks like the show has some organization to it and people don't scratch their heads and say "well, what would the main event have been if he didn't interupt this promo?".
Change the sets.
Cut back to 2 hours of Raw. I know there's ad revenue for the 3'rd hour of Raw, but it comes at the cost of burning out the audience, lowering the ratings, less interest in the Network, etc.
Speaking of the Network, take WrestleMania off it for $9.99. That's ridiculous and should've never been done. The other PPV's can stay, but WrestleMania is WrestleMania. It needs to be an entity unto itself, and people WILL pay for it. No person who's dedicated enough to buy the Network is not dedicated enough to pay a big fee one time a year for a special show. If they had just offered the content they have now, with all the PPV's for 9.99 except for WrestleMania, this company would be ROLLING in money.
There has to be more I would do without getting into the pushes, but I can't think of it. You know what I'm gonna do there, Damien Sandow, Bray Wyatt, Dean Ambrose, Wade Barrett, massive pushes. Kane and Big Show out the door. Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, big de-pushes. Kevin Owens and John Cena can maintain the level of push that they already have.
Abolish the scripted promo, and encourage the talent to speak with their own vision. This drastically increases the chance of an unexpected person striking gold.
Oh, and I'd bring back this version of the WWE Championship, and keep it FOREVER. And ever. And ever. And ever. And.....ever.
You're assuming he would even have the first clue about how to write wrestling, on top of things like he'd make more money in regular tv, and it's less work. The storytelling in a 10 to 13 episode long drama series that runs for a number of seasons and uses every day situations as its backdrop is completely different to the 52 week a year, closed natured environment of pro wrestling.I'd hire Vince Gilligan as head writer