Thread: A change in the WWE?
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Old 01-07-2005, 02:03 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by The CyNick
Ive been saying for a while (like over a year) that they need to come up with some new way to spin pro wrestling.

The Hulk Hogan Rock N Wrestling era was completely different from the Bob Backlund era in the 70s. And the Austin era was completely different from the 80s boom, but even more successful.

The declines have seem to come when the WWE tries to use clones to recapture previous success. The most bltatant examples of this were Warrior for a short period in 1990 (luckily they still had Hogan to go back to) and then Luger in 93. Where they tried to make these guys clones of Hulk Hogan and push them in the same way.

I think they need to do something to once again change the face of wrestling, and get people talking. Stategically this should coincide with finding one or two guys that they think will be able to take them to new heights.

What is that new forumla? I dont know. There's nothing out there, wrestling wise that is making a ton of money that you could steal ideas from. So its even tougher than its been in the past.

If it were me, I'd look to market the shows to kids again. This is another point Ive made several times, but if you look at what is most successful int he movie business, its the kids/fantasy movies. American society is far more conservative than it was in 1997, so maybe the idea of the superhero good guy could be fashionable again. But anything I'm saying is nothing more than a guess, I could be completely wrong.
Well wrestling can't get more violent without being done before, and it can't get more plain without being stale, so they may as well do something that hasn't been exposed to us as much, and that's by making it more of a sport.

If you got divisions and rankings, you could potentially change the focus of the shows. A wrestler's place on the rankings determines his bragging rights, etc.

One hting that isn't around anymore is that "extreme" hardcore wrestling, like what ECW offered. Just an idea, but in say 10 years time when ECW has all but rotted from our memories, it wouldn't surprise me to see a new promotion start up using over-the-top violence to market themselves, until then I guess we have to deal with this semi-attitude, era.
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