Should the WWE air "specials"?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Kane Knight Or they could make the prgramming consitently better, so that they don't need a tournament every month to draw viewers.

That's what I'm talking about. If they had matches like Chavo vs. Rey on SD! more often, they wouldn't need tournaments and things, and they can be used for PPVs.

Why not save the Gold Rush tournament for Vengeance to decide who will face Batista at Summerslam? Over the next few weeks you'd have qualifying matches, tag team matches, storyline build-up (particularly around Benoit's concussion). And then when the draft happens, you can make the appropriate changes.

You keep the whole "they know they're in the tournament, but they don't know who their opponent is" deal going, and when Christian comes out first on PPV and is greeted by Kane, it might mean more than what it did on RAW.

Good matches are the secret to drawing fans, not tournaments. I personally think PPVs need to use more gimmicks than what they do, because it seems as if shows like Backlash are just glorified episodes of RAW.