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Originally posted by The Strangler
I thought the Brock/RVD feud had all kinds of possibilities and the crowd thought so too. Evidently Vince didn't... RVD is from ECW right? Thats what I thought, too.
The biggest thing contributing to the lack of ratings and interest now, though, is that the WWE has gotten back to how they were before WCW. Raw is now only used to build up PPVs, and its getting more and more obvious that this is the formula they are using. Remember when world titles changed on Raw? That doesn't happen anymore. Without competition the WWE has become apathetic and is content to use their TV shows as commercials and hype machines for their PPVs, and people are catching on. No one watches the TV, because they know that nothing really big is going to happen. Goldberg was unveiled, but did he wrestle right away? No, they held off until a PPV.
The WWE reached their heights because they treated almost every Raw like a PPV, because they had to beat the competition to survive. They need to get back to that mentallity, or we may see them seeing audiences like those in the early 90's again very soon.
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I agree... in the late 90's Raw felt like it was a great show on it's own, now it feels more like some type of advertizing tool for PPVs. Well, it has allways been that way, but now it just seems even worse.
I really think turning the world title into the main story on both shows is kinda killing the shows too... It feels much more like an orginized sport than it did in the late 90s.
Another possibility for rating drop-offs could be that the fans are afraid of change... Think back to when WWE first started skidding,it's like Vince just kept making more and more changes and the shows fell deeper and deeper into a hole.
For myself, I think knowing too much backstage and behind the scened info is making the shows worse to me. I think I would have liked WM even more than I ended up liking it if I didn't care if HHH won or not, and if I didn't know Angle was going to lose no matter what. Little bits of info kills the shows at times for me personally, but that won't explain the ratings.