Originally Posted by The CyNick

But on RAW especially, they have far too many long matches. I have no problem putting a big time match on RAW as long as its done sparingly, but when you get more than one 15 minute match every week the fans get burned out to that length of match, regardless of who is in it. The numbers are all the proof that you should need. TV numbers are flat, but house shows and PPVs are going down, and going down fast, thats not good.

And saying a bad 8 minute match will be worse in 15 is not absurd. If you use Benoit and Jericho as an example, they would have a good match in 8 minutes, it wouldn't be as good as a 15 minute one, but it wouldn't be bad either. Whereas a match that is bad in 8 minutes 9 times out 10 will be horrible in 15.

This is my last post on the subject, when they used the shorter match formula ratings were better, now they have longer matches and people dont seem as interested in their houses and PPVs. Thats not the only reason, but its also obvious its not working.