Thread: What if the WWE decided NOT TO BE AWFUL?
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Old 11-05-2018, 05:55 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan View Post
I don’t buy the initial drop off idea. I’ve had this discussion before with people who think that improving their storylines, methodically building characters and making everything happen for a reason would turn the existing audience off. It wouldn’t. No one watching now is going to stop if the show just got more compelling. There may be people who don’t give a fuck whether it’s more compelling but it’s not a deal-breaker.
I get what you're saying, but you'd be surprised how many people are adverse to good things. "I don't want no fucking common sense in my wrestling!" Look at the mouth-breathers who actually react to things like the Dean Ambrose heel turn. Kevin Dunn actually gets reaction shots of these people holding their head in confusion. People believe a match is going to end after one finishing move even when there is a table set up in the ring and no one has gone through it.

Wrestling fans aren't the smartest batch of people in the wold. A lot of us would like it to become water-cooler talk again, but I can see the current fan base, whatever you want to call them, being confused and off-put by a product that ties things together and where people actually get heat, etc. I've seen a bunch of people online whinging about heel promos that hurt their feelings, etc.

I think the rate of increase would completely overshadow the rate of decrease. I think most of the viewing public want something better. Hell, that's is why they're turning off and most of them are in their 50s. But good wrestling would be scary and unusual to some people.
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