Top 5: Ways To Improve WWE

A topic many love and enjoy — improving WWE! Daniel Leon chimes in with his Top 5 areas of improvement.

Daniel Leon
Jul 28, 2017 · 6 min read

If you’ve been a fan of the WWE for a while you will notice that, much like all of us, they don’t always make the right decisions. Although there are many things we love about the WWE, it’s hard for any of us to watch the product without thinking, this is what I would do. With that in mind, let’s dive into a few ways WWE can improve their television product….

5. Film 205 Live before Smackdown with fewer but longer matches

Lets start off with an easy one, something many people online have been vocal about since the inception of 205 Live. The simple fact is that by the time the audience has sat through an entire taping of Smackdown, they are too burnt out to sit through 205 Live. Also, as exciting as the guys on 205 live are, you can’t follow up AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Randy Orton with…Noam Darr and Alicia Foxx.

The popularity and success of the Cruiserweight Classic is the exact reason why 205 Live is around today. The problem however, lies in the logic that you can just throw these guys on TV and it will be a smash hit. A great way to combat this would be to do fewer, yet longer, matches. Try to replicate the type of matches these guys were having during the tournament. Let fans have a longer time to be invested in these match ups and let them stand on their own merit. As the quality of the matches improve, so will the show.

4. Put the United Kingdom Championship on Smackdown

Right off the bat, if RAW is able to have the Cruiserweight division, then SD Live should be able to have the UK division, fair enough right? It is hard to get invested in these guys when they are on TV sporadically, we as fans don’t see the UK talent regularly, making it difficult to keep up with whats going on. There’s no doubt that the UK talent has what it takes to tear the house down and put on amazing matches, they just need a larger stage, and Smackdown would be the best bet, benefiting not only the talent, but Smackdown Live as well.

3. Introduce a Television Championship

Let’s face it, a lot of the roster spends lengthy amounts of time treading water in the WWE. With either the Universal/WWE and the Intercontinental/United States championships as really the only avenue for singles success, it really limits what you can achieve on your own. Especially when you consider how seldom the titles change hands. So why not introduce a television championship?

A reason to keep people involved in a match or a superstar that would otherwise just be on TV to fill time anyway. And this would be great to keep people relevant and give them a claim to fame. Let’s say you have a guy like Apollo Crews, who isn’t likely the next Universal or Intercontinental champion, put the TV title on him making him relevant, giving him something to do on RAW, and prestige to a newly introduced title.

They could even make the TV title a championship defended on BOTH shows! How awesome would that be, also making the title stand out as the one championship that allows you to be on both shows, also allowing the title to be moved between brands when it switches hands.

2. More Championship wins on RAW and Smackdown

Probably the best thing WWE can do to make their product feel like it is can’t miss TV, is to make people feel like the will ACTUALLY miss something if they don’t tune in. WWE has operated on this concept that weekly TV is meant to set up storylines for their pay per view shows, and then saving these moments for the PPV, making fans feel like they have to watch those PPVs to be a part of the big payoff moments. There are 2 fundamental flaws with this logic and its execution.

First, if all the memorable moments are saved for the PPVs, then there won’t be anything special happening on RAW and Smackdown. Because, we all know the WWE title wont change hands on Smackdown this week right? But the fact that we know that, is wrong, and not a good thing. AJ Styles just won the United States title at a house show and it got all the fans wanting to see AJ come out with the championship the next week on Smackdown. Having surprise moments like this WORKS, and it works even better when it happens when people aren’t expecting it. If a title changes hands at a PPV, it was expected by at least a portion of the audience. If it happens at a TV taping or a live event, people go crazy because they were a part of something special and unpredictable.

The second flaw is these huge payoff moments that we all wait for at the pay per views often non-existent or disappointing. The first ever Women’s Money in the Bank, was won by a man. Lesnar vs Joe first time ever for the Universal Title, was 6 minutes long. The major titles never change unless its WrestleMania, SummerSlam, occasionally a PPV coming before mania, but that’s about it, and the fact that we know THAT as well, to paraphrase a line from the great DDP, is not a good thing, its a bad thing.

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1. More Unpredictability

The most talked about storyline in recent memory was “What is Kurt Angle’s big secret?” Everyone was online speculating what it would be, it got people talking. Fans love mystery and things they can quite easily figure out. It becomes very hard to watch RAW and Smackdown when most of the time you can predict the winners of the matches, or where a storyline is heading. No one ever tuned into a show because it was predictable.

So do everything you can to not be predictable. It isn’t a hard thing to do either, invest more time into your storylines, change titles at something other than a pay per view, how about an upset victory every now and then. Remember when Hurricane beat The Rock? Good times.

Coming soon: Top 5: MORE Ways To Improve WWE!

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