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This past week's Raw was the second lowest scoring ever. Nothing is going to turn the ratings around immediately, but it can be done in as little as a year with a change of direction. I don't think this is the time to do rearrange the chairs on the show-- it's time to rearrange the chairs backstage.
1. It's time for Vince to retire and for Stephanie and Shane to truly take over direction of the two shows. The loss of audience in the last year is a watershed moment. It's time for Vince to accept that it's time for a new generation.
2. The worst thing they can do is keep the program centered around Roman Reigns. The only interesting choice to defeat Lesnar is Joe, but Joe hasn't done shit in front of the WWE's softcore audience but have the same match with Rollins 19 times. WWE's audience hasn't seen Joe be the savage mf he was in TNA. WWE doesn't even allow him to wrestle faster workers in the cruiserweight division so Joe hardly gets to display his talents.
3. The champions for the last year have been KO, Flair, and New Day; and they sent them all to Smackdown screwing everything up. Who is the franchise of Raw? We haven't seen the champion since WM. There is no franchise. This superstar shakeup screw-up cannot be undone. The goose is cooked and now it's going to take a whole new year to build franchises (Joe, Aries).
4. The only thing of consistency right now is the cruiserweight division. Austin Aries should be the new champion come Monday, but the audience isn't going to get lit to see Aries vs Neese or Galagher or Perkins this Monday or the next. What the WWE needs to do with Aries after his win over Neville is have someone like The Miz come out and do an angle with him. This is where Miz is at his best; getting heat against a new face who is a veteran from the indies.
5. Demographics-
a. Who is WWE's big Latino star? They don't treat any of them like star material. Where is Lince? Where is Metalik?
b. Who is the WWE's black star that is one of the top 3-4 in the company? They don't push any of them into that position (instead, you get the likes of Wyatt, Orton, Reigns). Part of Rock's success was/is his ability to draw a whole different demographic. The WWE is paying more attention to India as a demographic than the American black audience.
1. It's time for Vince to retire and for Stephanie and Shane to truly take over direction of the two shows. The loss of audience in the last year is a watershed moment. It's time for Vince to accept that it's time for a new generation.
2. The worst thing they can do is keep the program centered around Roman Reigns. The only interesting choice to defeat Lesnar is Joe, but Joe hasn't done shit in front of the WWE's softcore audience but have the same match with Rollins 19 times. WWE's audience hasn't seen Joe be the savage mf he was in TNA. WWE doesn't even allow him to wrestle faster workers in the cruiserweight division so Joe hardly gets to display his talents.
3. The champions for the last year have been KO, Flair, and New Day; and they sent them all to Smackdown screwing everything up. Who is the franchise of Raw? We haven't seen the champion since WM. There is no franchise. This superstar shakeup screw-up cannot be undone. The goose is cooked and now it's going to take a whole new year to build franchises (Joe, Aries).
4. The only thing of consistency right now is the cruiserweight division. Austin Aries should be the new champion come Monday, but the audience isn't going to get lit to see Aries vs Neese or Galagher or Perkins this Monday or the next. What the WWE needs to do with Aries after his win over Neville is have someone like The Miz come out and do an angle with him. This is where Miz is at his best; getting heat against a new face who is a veteran from the indies.
5. Demographics-
a. Who is WWE's big Latino star? They don't treat any of them like star material. Where is Lince? Where is Metalik?
b. Who is the WWE's black star that is one of the top 3-4 in the company? They don't push any of them into that position (instead, you get the likes of Wyatt, Orton, Reigns). Part of Rock's success was/is his ability to draw a whole different demographic. The WWE is paying more attention to India as a demographic than the American black audience.