Thread: So when did RAW jump the shark?
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Old 01-18-2007, 02:26 PM   #95
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Originally Posted by jeritron5000
I was thinking about something...a theory as to why things "fell apart"

At the beginning of the monday night wars, the business was relatively unchanged over the years. By todays standards, it was slow moving. Once the compettition heated up, so did the business. Things sped up. It was no longer as slow moving as before, it became a weekly soap opera. One of the things about this was to trump the compettition.

Normally, we had a few champions a year if that. In the year 1999, 7 seperate men held the WWF championship, and it changed hands much more than that. A year later in 2000, only 4 men were champions and for much longer periods of time. Why was this? because the WCW was dropping faster than a prom dress, the WWF had won and the compettition was all but over.
This wasn't neccesarily a bad thing. The speed would have gotten out of hand, but the fast paced unpredictable environment was what made things so entertaining, and once the compettition ended it came to a screeching hault.

In 2000, things began to slow down drastically and become tamer. And the trait continued through the years. Couple that with the influx of talent and you have two opposite things tugging on the success from seperate ends. Less momentum, more weight. Things naturally froze up.
Slowing the business down may have been a neccesary thing, but it caused things to get less interesting. Nobody wants to ride a roller coaster on slow after they just rode it on top speed right before. Just a theory.
In 2000, While WWF only had 4 World Champs(Big Show, HHH, The Rock, Kurt Angle)... WCW(in what was their final full year in business) had 12 different champions(13 if you count Hogan's "win" at BatB, with Russo's worked "shoot promo" following)(including 2 non-wrestlers in Vince Russo and David Arquette)(Bret Hart(vacated on 1/15 due to his career-ending injury)Benoit, Sid, Nash, Jarrett, DDP, Arquette, Flair, Booker T, Vince Russo, and Scott Steiner)
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