Overall, is it better for WWE to acknowledge promotions like TNA, ROH, WCW and ECW?

**Xero** · 01-01-2008, 05:39 PM

Is it better, from WWE's perspective, to allow for acknowledgment of other promotions or just suppress them?

On one side, it would be giving free advertising to that promotion - whether it be positive or negative (IE: The WCW Invasion).

On the other, it allows them to note, for instance, that so-and-so has held this-and-that title, allowing them to build them up from another angle.

I do understand why WWE does it, but when someone has held a major title - for example, someone from TNA comes in and was a former TNA/NWA world champion - and they just entirely dismiss it despite a good number of fans having knowledge of it insults the fans' intelligence. Plus it doesn't give them the chance for more of a build. Of course, if they're going to repackage this wrestler this would be moot.

And on a similar not, would it be better for WWE if they allowed other promotions to use their footage on a limited basis if it meant being able to use that promotion's footage to promote the debut and other things for a wrestler?

01-01-2008, 05:39 PM	#1
Xero He's Here Posts: 60,735	Overall, is it better for WWE to acknowledge promotions like TNA, ROH, WCW and ECW? Is it better, from WWE's perspective, to allow for acknowledgment of other promotions or just suppress them? On one side, it would be giving free advertising to that promotion - whether it be positive or negative (IE: The WCW Invasion). On the other, it allows them to note, for instance, that so-and-so has held this-and-that title, allowing them to build them up from another angle. I do understand why WWE does it, but when someone has held a major title - for example, someone from TNA comes in and was a former TNA/NWA world champion - and they just entirely dismiss it despite a good number of fans having knowledge of it insults the fans' intelligence. Plus it doesn't give them the chance for more of a build. Of course, if they're going to repackage this wrestler this would be moot. And on a similar not, would it be better for WWE if they allowed other promotions to use their footage on a limited basis if it meant being able to use that promotion's footage to promote the debut and other things for a wrestler?