[Neil_totally]

It's obvious that WWE are making a huge effort to build wrestlers/stars outside of RAW/smackdown, with (I think) a much stronger effort towards better characters & better promos for those characters than either of the bigger shows.

What i'm wondering, and what I want to discuss, is whether it would benefit from losing the WWE association? In it's Attitude Era/Monday night Wars prime, the benefit of companies like WCW & ECW having popularity was that they would have their own stars that even casuals knew about, which meant little effort needed to "build" them for the main event/big shows. for example, as good as Jericho is/was/whatever, the pop he got when he debuted was massive, and I just don't think, even if they did everything exactly the same now, if he was to have come from NXT it would be even close. There's no way anyone from NXT, however good they are/might be, could get a reaction like that when they arrived on the big shows, purely because the majority of folk at a RAW/smackdown event wouldn't watch NXT.

Do you think NXT would benefit from being seperate from WWE? Or that it would be a good idea for WWE to start up another promotion to build up, completely separately from the WWE brand, for somewhere for casual fans to get in to, and over time, essentially, build their own "competition", leading then to a bigger level of "star" to send on to RAW/Smackdown, rather than just someone who only ardent fans would know, and have to spend so much time building/introducing them to the casuals.

 

[Roncaglione]

No.

 

[truk83]

It's obvious that WWE are making a huge effort to build wrestlers/stars outside of RAW/smackdown, with (I think) a much stronger effort towards better characters & better promos for those characters than either of the bigger shows.

What i'm wondering, and what I want to discuss, is whether it would benefit from losing the WWE association? In it's Attitude Era/Monday night Wars prime, the benefit of companies like WCW & ECW having popularity was that they would have their own stars that even casuals knew about, which meant little effort needed to "build" them for the main event/big shows. for example, as good as Jericho is/was/whatever, the pop he got when he debuted was massive, and I just don't think, even if they did everything exactly the same now, if he was to have come from NXT it would be even close. There's no way anyone from NXT, however good they are/might be, could get a reaction like that when they arrived on the big shows, purely because the majority of folk at a RAW/smackdown event wouldn't watch NXT.

Do you think NXT would benefit from being seperate from WWE? Or that it would be a good idea for WWE to start up another promotion to build up, completely separately from the WWE brand, for somewhere for casual fans to get in to, and over time, essentially, build their own "competition", leading then to a bigger level of "star" to send on to RAW/Smackdown, rather than just someone who only ardent fans would know, and have to spend so much time building/introducing them to the casuals.

A while back I had read that HHH was talking about the possibilities of more wrestling territories, specifically WWE owned wrestling territories. I'm not sure about the financial situation of the WWE, but right now they have several televised shows with the two main shows being Raw, and Smackdown. With that said I think they may be able to use the television markets that they have now, and "if" they get the WWE Network going then this could be very realistic.

Granted Shane has said several times he was done with professional wrestling, but who is to say from "kayfabe" view he returns to the WWE only to tell his father that he has sold WCW to none other than Eric Bischoff. I believe the WWE has a deal with NBC, and they could even get in on the "shoot work" claiming that WCW is back, and ready to go head to head with the WWE. Obviously people forget that what made WCW popular was the former stars Vince created. Would this be any different, and could John Cena finally jump ship to a promotion in which the fans won't boo him?

 

[dxbender]

NXT is nothing more than a minor league for WWE. Like WWEs version of AAA baseball

 

[TempestH]

If they want to make a seperate promotion, they could do that with FCW. "Florida Championship Wrestling" sounds more like an indy fed than "WWE NXT"