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The only way SmackDown can survive and thrive.

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#1 · (Edited)
1)Get rid of the fucking women(in wrestling/talking roles), especially fucking Bailey and Sasha.

2)Start booking Mandy Rose and Alexa Bliss in "hot" segments

3)Turn Roman heel, aligned with the Usos, dubbed "The Samoan Dynasty" and get interesting babyface underdogs like Bryan and Gable to feud with/feed Roman, and THEN watch your viewership remain consistent and get better with time(months, probably). Roman can be your silent, Stoic, man-of-few-words badass motherfucker WWE champ, while Usos do the talking.

4)Meanwhile you can simultaneously build the stars of the Future, aka Elias, Baron Corbin in your midcard.

I've never liked the Miz, especially in a Wrestling role, but hell, fucking Miz can still be better to watch in talk show segments...only if those segments have some interesting people, you know, like a heel Roman Reigns. And fucking Bailey, Sasha or Charlotte ARE NOT interesting, it doesn't matter if they win 30 women's titles or 75.

5)Also it wouldn't hurt if you skipped on filler trash and women's wrestling garbage and got the Cruiserweight division on Smackdown instead. Ali, Buddy Murphy et al are far better to give 10 minutes of your TV time to, than a bunch of ugly Botch machines in Six-pack challenges.

6)Do stuff with Cesaro, Sami Zayn and Shinsuke Nakamura. Give them a bloody chance and book them consistently and not as some IC champ who's barely booked on PPVs or has had any meaningful feuds.
 
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Re: The only way Smackdown can survive and thrive.

I dont think there is anything they can do tbh. The wwe roster is extremely dull and uninteresting. Neither is there anything happening in their real lives which can be played off as a real feud, nor is their acting anything to crow about. You can have peak writers with this crop and it still would be quite an average show.

While I agree with your Roman Reigns heel thing, I doubt that is a direction that would change anything. You want ratings which FOX expect, you are not going to get that with the status quo of Roman Reigns standing tall week after week. Like someone above said, buy former MMA guys and maybe there's a chance. Otherwise they're pretty much in the <2mn viewers category.
 
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Re: The only way Smackdown can survive and thrive.

I dont think there is anything they can do tbh. The wwe roster is extremely dull and uninteresting. Neither is there anything happening in their real lives which can be played off as a real feud, nor is their acting anything to crow about. You can have peak writers with this crop and it still would be quite an average show.

While I agree with your Roman Reigns heel thing, I doubt that is a direction that would change anything. You want ratings which FOX expect, you are not going to get that with the status quo of Roman Reigns standing tall week after week. Like someone above said, buy former MMA guys and maybe there's a chance. Otherwise they're pretty much in the <2mn viewers category.
What happened to hate? I don't get the feeling that people hate each other anymore (like HHH was hated by everyone).
 
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Re: The only way Smackdown can survive and thrive.

I always thought WWE squandered DB's return way back when. And I do think tapping into him as a strong babyface at the top of the card would help the product. Will it happen? Doubtful.

It seems to me, we've had to deal with Brock as this neverending placeholder until Reigns is ready. And the heat on Reigns has died down, true. But he was always the wrong choice as a lead babyface and that remains the truth.

Don't think "hot" segments would matter. People can find pretty blondes doing much more explicit things easily on the internet.
 
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Re: The only way Smackdown can survive and thrive.

I always thought WWE squandered DB's return way back when. And I do think tapping into him as a strong babyface at the top of the card would help the product. Will it happen? Doubtful.
:up

It seems to me, we've had to deal with Brock as this neverending placeholder until Reigns is ready. And the heat on Reigns has died down, true. But he was always the wrong choice as a lead babyface and that remains the truth.
Never say never though. It didn't happen with Cena(and I would never have cared or liked Cena regardless of heel/face anyway). But they COULD always turn Roman heel/tweener. And not just a dorky douchebag-ish cowardly babyboy heel like Seth :Cocky no. But a stoic, arrogant, in-your-face, mighty heel champion.

Don't think "hot" segments would matter. People can find pretty blondes doing much more explicit things easily on the internet.
It's like this. There's a whole lot of sugar(porn) people consume through cakes, cookies, ice-cream, and soda. But at the end of the day you still need a sweetener/sugar in your coffee/tea. Especially if you're someone like me who prefers to NOT have dessert ever, but cannot have their green tea, tea or coffee without some sort of a sweetener-whether artificial or natural.

So even if people MAY be able to find explicit/hardcore content, some may still NOT mind, or even prefer to have a lil Mandy and Alexa on the side :Cocky, if you get the gist.. :reigns2

If you're going to waste money/resources on women in Wrestling, they may as well only hire the Mandies, Scarletts and Alexas and have them in segments which are more likely to elicit a reaction or induce some pleasure even if it's a mild pleasure to the Sight.
 
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Re: The only way Smackdown can survive and thrive.

Terrible list. None of this will increase ratings. Here's what they should do:

1. Starting building Roman back up by putting the IC title on him.

2. Bring back Ronda and do Ronda vs Cyborg

3. Bring in Daniel Cormier and do Lesnar vs Cormier

4. Build up Wyatt and Strowman and make them face Daniel Bryan

5. Bring in Shayna and do Bayley vs Shayna

6. Use Miz, Corbin etc as effective midcard heels against Kofi and New Day

7. Bring in Matt Riddle and do a program with Goldberg

8. More sports like promos, conferences and backstage segments
 
#18 ·
Re: The only way Smackdown can survive and thrive.

Interesting people like Roman?



Really dude?
HEEL Roman. >>

fucking Miz can still be better to watch in talk show segments...only if those segments have some interesting people, you know, like a heel Roman Reigns.
But if THAT's not something interesting to you, may be a Seth Rollins, Cringy Lynch or Bailey promo may be. :Cocky
 
#21 · (Edited)
Re: The only way Smackdown can survive and thrive.

A good start would be eradicating people like the OP from their fan base by taking away their content viewing and internet privileges.
Content viewing and internet privileges :brock4

I'm sure watching Cringy Lynch's "The Man" crap is quite the privilege :cornette

Then get rid of Vince.
Yes, Vince must be sent to a concentration camp. Or at least a meditation camp/retreat on a Scottish Island.

Then 3rd, we can start to work on creative.
Any creative which allows Cringy Lynch, Boring Bailey or Death Rollins to talk on the microphone must be fired, immediately. :jericho3
 
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If you're someone that doesn't like the women like the OP, wait until Shayna Baszler shows up on Raw or Smackdown. That girl has the personality of an empty plastic bag, the ring work of someone made of a stack of boards nailed together, and a face that looks like a giant knuckle, not to mention her sidekick looks like she just escaped from a goddamn concentration camp. That oughta get the crowd all hot and bothered.
 
#31 ·
I also agree with everything. I’m sick of this woman empowerment bullshit. Not just in WWE but everywhere it’s so cringe.

Like the other day I saw a tv show called Bat Woman. Like wtf are we Gona next have female Capitan America? Or maybe the Iron Woman lmao.

They even changed Alladins ending so that the princess becomes the Sultan and the leader of the realm.

And they changed the Lion King so that Nala kicked Simbas ass when they fought and the female lions were more alpha than the actual lion king lmao. Like for real can you imagine in the real nature that the Alpha lion gets his ass kicked by a lowly lioness?

And let’s not get me started on the way Becky beat the crap out of Corbin in that segment where Corbin is twice her size and two times taller and just got beat up without payback..

So yea I agree with the OP on everything
 
#39 ·
I also agree with everything. I’m sick of this woman empowerment bullshit. Not just in WWE but everywhere it’s so cringe.

Like the other day I saw a tv show called Bat Woman. Like wtf are we Gona next have female Capitan America? Or maybe the Iron Woman lmao.

They even changed Alladins ending so that the princess becomes the Sultan and the leader of the realm.

And they changed the Lion King so that Nala kicked Simbas ass when they fought and the female lions were more alpha than the actual lion king lmao. Like for real can you imagine in the real nature that the Alpha lion gets his ass kicked by a lowly lioness?

And let’s not get me started on the way Becky beat the crap out of Corbin in that segment where Corbin is twice her size and two times taller and just got beat up without payback..
So yea I agree with the OP on everything
I don't remember much about the Lion King but I'm pretty sure that Nala kicked Simba's ass even in back in the original Animated Movie....

If you didn't know, the lioness irl do all the hunting.
 
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