1- Split the Brands again (RAW & SD)

2- Make RAW 2 Hours

3- Have 8 PPVs every year

4- Sign The Rock to a 3 match per year contract

5- Have Russo & Patterson head writers of RAW and Heyman head writer of SD

 

1- Split the Brands again (RAW & SD)

2- Make RAW 2 Hours

3- Have 8 PPVs every year

4- Sign The Rock to a 3 match per year contract

5- Have Russo & Patterson head writers of RAW and Heyman head writer of SD

So much win!

 

1. Make RAW 2 hours long

2. Bring in a whole new creative team with good knowledge of what's good and what's not.

3. Stop bringing back so many part timers

4. Remove the shackles from wrestlers when cutting promos

5. Get rid of gimmick PPVs to make the matches feel more special.

 

1. Fire/force resignation on Vince. He has done brilliantly with his empire but he has to go for anything to move forward. Enjoy his retirement.

2. Make Raw 2 hours.

3. Require wrestlers to have gimmicks and not just be generic athlete UFC rip off #34.

4. Stop referring to wrestlers as superstars, divas, refusing to say belt, etc. Let's take away the cheese so people arent as embarrassed to promote WWE to their friends. It's far to childish and cheesy atm. Every time I hear 'WWE universe' I can smell the cheese.

5. People only think this is isn't a good reason as they believe they are being morally superior in not wanting the show to be more violent or edgy but the show needs it, its a fighting programme for gods sake.
Get rid of PG. It makes the show sound/look childish, doesn't make sense to have PG storylines driving conflicts that ALWAYS end in a fight and as OP said will give the writers the freedom they need to create actual compelling characters and not cartoons.
This is a major reason why Wrestling isn't seen as cool, edgy or compelling anymore, Saved by the Bell is more fucking compelling at the moment.
The hipster answer is 'better writing gets around PG' but honestly, think about it. Take away all adult subject matter and what do the writers have left? The conflicts always end in a match up and the scene is always an arena, add that to little to know subject matter due to PG restrictions and what the hell do you expect the writers to do other than shit?
There are plenty of other toy companies that could make action figures, there is only one WWE and they need to remind a few of their sponsors that or ditch them.

 

I'll have a crack at some that haven't been said just yet.
1. If there is a brand split, scrap the U.S championship, make the IC championship the main belt on Smackdown
2. Get rid of Money in the Bank, HIAC and TLC pay per views. Too many pay per views named after a match. (Was Beat)
3. Less soft cock heels.
4. NXT 90 minutes.
5. Have Kevin Owens beat the shit out of Michael Cole and fire all three idiots on commentary. Replace them with Daniel Bryan and Steve Corino.

 

2 hour RAW.

Hire new creative team

Gimmick PPV's need to go.. TLC and Hell in a Cell matches feel a lot less special now thanks to those PPV's.

Create intriguing storylines instead of them doing the same shit every week with hardly any story development

Make NXT 2 hour's long.

 

1 - Make Heyman head of the creative team
2 - Use more backstage segments and wrestlers interactions so that the feuds don't all look the same and so bland
3 - Push who the crowd actually wants, without giving them the last word
4 - Retire Vince
5 - Try new types of matches like the Steel Asylum

 

- Change Raw back to 2 hours
- Fire the whole creative team
- Force Vince & Steph into retirement
- Let the commentary team off the leash
- Give wrestlers more creative freedom

 

1 - Remove forced gimmicks

2- Less PPVs

3- What everyone said about RAW being 2 hours

4- Split the Brands, I feel that can change a lot

5- Have one "Fan-Pick" match every other Raw

 

1 - Back to 2 hours.

2 - About 8 PPVs a year, a lot more emphasis on building feuds, especially for the top PPVs.

3 - More creative freedom.

4 - More backstage segments, less pointless matches.

5 - Better booking.

 

This. Plus a smaller writing team. Vince and Pat Patterson used to book Raw by themselves. You can tell by the booking that there are way too many thoughts and not a clear vision when it comes to everything besides the main event.

 

Great ideas I admit but as much as I would like to see point 4 and 5 happen especially, here's why it won't work.

Regarding point 4:
Sending talent down to smackdown to be smackdown exclusive won't work at present. The problem being that the roster is VERY thin on draws and what I mean by that is that there is no viable way of taking away from the very little established talent from RAW to help give smackdown name value without it hurting RAW. Thus in order for the brand split to work, you need at least 3 to 4 established main event stars and build upper midcard and new Main event talent from there. One of the reasons why the initial brand split worked is because you had a few big names that drew in the audience while giving the audience a chance to adjust to other main event talent in the making while giving creative a platform to build new stars properly.

Regarding point 5:
Changing back to TV14 won't help much presently. There is a HUGE fad to be PC, which would still drastically limit what WWE would be able to do. Sponsors simply do not want to be associated with anything receiving negative press. They can still be PG but can push the limits of PG to a large degree whilst maintaining their sponsorship deals. They've proven they can do so at times when it suits them which is why PG isn't an excuse for them to put out what they have the last few months especially.


Now, what I would change:
1) Change Raw back to 2 hours - the majority of people simply cannot sit for 3 hours at a time with a single show or movie, plus overexposing talent and programming does not do much in to keep in audience invested. HHH even recently admitted that sitting for 3 hours watching a movie can be daunting as by hour 2 most start looking at their watch.


2) Give the superstars more freedom on mic. There will be those who work better constricted to a script and that's fine, but don't overscript everyone so much. The reason why certain mic workers are better is because they can add their own edge and spin to promo's which simply make them feel authentic and not like a rehearsed speech.


3) They've in the last few weeks started to do this FINALLY but bring back the unpredictability. For months the every show was just a rehash of the previous and people grew bored. Look at how this reflected in the ratings for example? Now, they are doing things no-one saw coming like Reigns winning the title on RAW where no title match was advertised as an example. Heck, even the last Raw where Vince announced himself as special guest Ref for next week has that "this can go down a few ways" feel to it.


4) Announce needs to be COMPLETELY overhauled. This was a HUGE factor in helping to establish stars and whether some admit it or not, it plays a major factor in helping to invest your audience at home in your product. Something needs to give. JBL when he FIRST became an announcer years back was halfway decent but since his return to announce he's been unbearable at times. I honestly think that besides the overscripting that a huge part of this was JBL was very much still like the heel "wrestler" in terms of his delivery and content while in his initial commentating run, whereas now he's more a normal guy simply playing a douchebag that's obsessed with getting in his lines that Vince feeds him, while spending the rest of his time bickering with Michael Cole about crap that has nothing to do with the match - I'd keep King on smackdown but I would turn him back into the heel announcer as I believe the man can still pull it off regardless of how the audience feels about him. To fix announce I'd attempt to:
* Make it a 2 man booth again.
* Turn King heel and pair him with a face Rene Young (this will work on so many levels)
* Move JBL back to NXT to find his groove and move Corey Graves to RAW alongside Cole.


5) Consistency and sustainability - What this means is that the constant start/stop pushes need to stop and so does the "audience only have a 2 week memory" way of thinking. Evaluate your talent and then give them a sustained push if you want ESTABLISHED Main Eventers the audience will buy into.

 

Don't worry man, I'm well aware that 4 and 5 won't happen, but if I was in charge, they would

 

1. Change the content rating to TV MA.

2. Make Raw two hours.

3. Split the brand.

4. Fire every single writer.

5. Hold a discussion group of sorts every few months with a cross section of fans.

 

I would change nothing, just to piss people on here off.

 

1. Make RAW 2 hours

2. Hire Russo as head writer and bring crash TV back

3. Completely revamp the RAW sets, commentary, design, ring, intro etc and hype the start of a new era

4. Turn Cena heel

5. Sign CM Punk back

 

1. Make RAW two hours, get rid of every show except RAW and NXT

2. Go back to being a private company, so you don't have to suck the shareholder's dicks and you can do whatever you want

3. Completely get rid of PC culture (bring Hogan back, fire useless talent who are there just because of PC like for example Darren Young or Rosa Mendes, divas go back to being what they were in the Attitude Era, have Stephanie and other girls get hit by men when they deserve it, more edgy segments, have Triple H be the one in charge instead of Stephanie, blood, badasses, swearing, no more charity/cancer kids being forced down our throats on TV, etc)

4. Main focus on size/look/charisma/storylines and less focus on ring skills, people like Bayley and Ambrose would be jobbers and people like Titus O'Neill and Reigns would be main eventers, people like Neville and Balor would be instantly fired

5. Only tour in cities with loud crowds

 

I'm doing 7 cos of the stuff I have to say

1. Younger talent should have the spot light
2. The divas deserve more time and should be able to perform moves that the guys can do
3. Get rid of the part timers
4. Bring back the attitude era
5. More world tours
6. Let the wrestlers do promos without restriction example Dean I know what he can really do
7. Vince to retire and HHH to takeover

 

Brand Split
Smackdown live on tuesdays
New Creative team
10 ppv per year
no more superman booking

 

1. RAW, 2 hours.
2. More emphasis on storylines and characters. Make people care.
3. Get rid of the over-scripting. More creative input from talent.
4. Swerves.
5. Cut 2 PPV's, especially Fastlane as it's pointless, and add more WWE Network specials.

 

1.2 hour Raws
2.Less gimmick PPVs (scrap Hell In A Cell, TLC etc) replace with more international specials like the Japan special
3.Do away with the face v heel authority storyline
4.Creative freedom for wrestlers
5.Push Cesaro, Kevin Owens, Rusev, Barrett

 

Undo all the changes mentioned before and after my post, just for sheer lulz.

 

1. Brand Split - Put internet favorites on one show and handpicked WWE guys on the other
2. Remove about 4 PPVs
3. Less commercials during matches
4. The use of WCW themed PPVs (Spin the Wheel, WarGames, BattleBowl)
5. On occasion put midcard WWE guys on NXT

 

This post will work under the assumption that all of these moves are logistically and financially viable.

(1-4) Begin a brand war between NXT and RAW:

Premise: There's a passion in NXT similar to Paul Heyman's Smackdown, and I'd use that to try and bring wrestling to a level it hasn't seen in years. Use Beaking Ground, Tough Enough and performance center specials on the Network if you want to continue showcasing your greenest talent, but make NXT a legitimate rival of RAW instead of a simple farm system meant to produce talent for the main roster writers to abuse.

(TLDR) The WWE has always been at its best when facing its greatest competitors, and for the first time in a decade, they have the ability and the wherewithal to simulate that competition themselves.


Corporate: The Network already operates under a TV-14 rating and I'd expand the show to work under those parameters; not as vulgar as Ruthless Aggression but far less restricted than PG. Boost NXT to a two-hour live slot exclusive to the Network and bring RAW back down to two hours to compensate. Bring in Heyman in a talent relations capacity (similar to Dusty's old role), where he doesn't have to deal with daily stress of creative, but can still get that old rush of pumping up his guys backstage.

(TLDR) Use Heyman's passion and creativity to compliment Triple H's own selling point for NXT: an edgier and more indy-geared alternative to RAW.


On-Air: Name Heyman the Chairman of NXT, making sporadic appearances to take part in major feuds. Move Regal to work as director of talent relations and bring in Kurt Angle as GM. Regal can be the "good parent" authority figure that the wrestlers go to when they need someone to stick up for them, but you often have him work on a "my hands are tied" level versus the cunty heel GM in Angle. Triple H can be named "Owner of NXT" to put a head even above Heyman.

In this dynamic, you have Regal and Angle appearing weekly, Heyman a few times a year, and Triple H once or twice bi-annually. The goal is to have a less convoluted version of Vince > Triple H > Maddox > Vickie.

(TLDR) New Kayfabe Administration: Triple H (Owner - "The Vince") > Heyman (Chairman - "The Triple H") > Angle (GM - "The Bischoff") > Regal (Talent Relations - "The Johnny Ace")


Production: Maintain the "black mat/white ropes" set used at TakeOver Brooklyn to make the show feel like a "reverse-RAW". Give Big Show a retirement ceremony on the main roster and bring back Jim Ross; have the two of them join Graves on commentary at NXT.

(TLDR) New Commentary: Jim Ross (play by play), Big Show (color - face), Corey Gaves (color - heel)


Talent: Revisit negotiations with the Briscoes and see if they'll bite on a contract exclusively for NXT; Jay Briscoe could be to NXT what Stone Cold was to the WWF (on a smaller scale, obviously). Sign the Young Bucks and bring down Ziggler to team with Breeze, making a strong tag division much stronger. Revert Adam Rose to his Leo Kruger persona and re-sign Chris Hero. Have Hero debut as the leader of a new "old hogs" stable, consisting of himself, Kruger, Samoa Joe and James Storm.

Bring in Jeff Hardy and Rey Mysterio on light working schedules with an aspect of helping younger talent, as well as working with coaches and trainers to design/enhance a drug and injury rehab program. The company will get good publicity and being able to work with younger wrestlers should help both guys battle their own issues.

(TLDR) Sign Jay Briscoe to be Austin-esque face of NXT. Sign Young Bucks, pair Breeze/Ziggler. Revert Rose back to Leo Kruger; team Kruger with Storm, Joe and a returning Chris Hero. Bring back Jeff Hardy, Mysterio.


Booking: Culminate NXT's yearly booking with a massive pay-per-view on the Friday night before Mania (Go-Home Smackdown Thursday, NXT Friday, Hall of Fame Saturday, Mania Sunday, Post-Mania Raw Monday). The post-Wrestlemania crash has long been a plague for the WWE, with how hard it is for them to retain their viewership and subscribers once the Wrestlemania buzz wears off. Extend Wrestlemania season for another month by debuting a new PPV (WWE War Zone?) or moving up something like WWE Battleground, with a card featuring every NXT champion clashing with their WWE rival counterpart, fighting to earn a year of bragging rights in favor of their promotion. It'll be the first time in history that they've actually increased the prestige of a Wrestlemania victory, because not only are you now fighting for your own Wrestlemania moment, you're very likely fighting to be a representative on the WWE's Battleground roster.

It's been said many times that Lesnar has gotten so big that there's no one wrestler who is easy to justify as deserving of the "beast-slayer" rub. Why not give that rub to an entire promotion? Have Lesnar fight on an NXT card a single time, and have the leading NXT representative (someone like Zayn, Cesaro, Jay Briscoe) beat him. Not only will it make that guy a star for life, it'll give NXT the instant credibility it needs to hang with the WWE.

(TLDR) Host NXT equivalent of Wrestlemania on Friday before Mania. Move Battleground to PPV after Mania and have all NXT champs face WWE champs for bragging rights. Have Lesnar lose to face of NXT to give rub to the whole promotion as opposed to one guy who WWE will mismanage anyway.


(5) Sign myself to an ironclad contract as head of creative, WWE.

 

1- Change Raw back to 2 Hours
2- Change Smackdown to a Live broadcast 1 Hour Duration
3- Change PG
4- Change whole commentary team
5- Change Creative/Booking team

 

Push Wyatt and his boys.

 

1. Two hour RAWs
2. Drop gimmick ppvs
3. Have cross promotion ppv's / talent exchange
4. Fire Kevin Dunn
5. Have hhh job to el torito on a weekly basis.

 

Remove:

1. Reigns
2. Cena
3. Ambrose
4. Rollins
5. Swagger

Change:

Nothing else.


Product slowly begins to rise again.