WWE PPVs

[Rammsteinmad]

On paper that is a great idea, but in the world of sports entertainment, especially for a company that has 3 or 4 weekly shows, nobody will wait from Backlash to Summerslam without losing interest.

The difference with UFC and WWE, is that UFC is a legit sport. Once a fight is booked, it's just a matter of waiting and letting the hype build itself up. With WWE, an organisation built by entertainment, it's these weekly/monthly altercations that keep the feuds, and the hype, going.

We (as internet fans), can only see so much of this until we get bored with it. OOOOOOR, if we're expected to wait for a match with five months of hype going into it, there is no way it will live up to our standards and be anything other than a disapointment.

Sorry, not saying you're wrong, but WWE is entertainment based and sadly waiting so long for a fight wouldn't pay off in todays market.

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Originally Posted by Rammsteinmad On paper that is a great idea, but in the world of sports entertainment, especially for a company that has 3 or 4 weekly shows, nobody will wait from Backlash to Summerslam without losing interest. The difference with UFC and WWE, is that UFC is a legit sport. Once a fight is booked, it's just a matter of waiting and letting the hype build itself up. With WWE, an organisation built by entertainment, it's these weekly/monthly altercations that keep the feuds, and the hype, going. We (as internet fans), can only see so much of this until we get bored with it. OOOOOOR, if we're expected to wait for a match with five months of hype going into it, there is no way it will live up to our standards and be anything other than a disapointment. Sorry, not saying you're wrong, but WWE is entertainment based and sadly waiting so long for a fight wouldn't pay off in todays market.

I still disagree, and I think it's exactly this kind of thinking which causes us to have so many short-term programs that fly by and never really "mean" anything. I mean what was the last main event feud that truly had a "this means something important" feel to it? I suppose that's very subjective, but for me it was probably the Chris Jericho/HBK feud over the World Heavyweight Title, or perhaps CM Punk/Jeff Hardy, and it was because the feuds were drawn out and meant more than just "I want the title and I don't like you."

I think Sting vs. Hollywood Hogan is the best example I could give. Eric Bischoff took a huge risk keeping Sting out of the ring for a year. He was one of the top guys, one of the only guys the fans looked at as an equal to the nWo, and yet they built that storyline for an entire year before the big pay-off match (which sucked and had a shitty ending, but that's beside the point). But the ratings for Starrcade 97 were through the roof. Interest for Sting/Hogan was higher than perhaps anything WCW ever did, and it was because they did the slow burn, and they did it right. And the company didn't suffer because WCW was still using it's other stars: DDP, Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Macho Man, Roddy Piper and others to keep the main event scene interesting. But in the end, even while Hogan was wrestling The Giant on PPV, people were still thinking about "Where's Sting and when is he going to kick Hogan's ass?"

If the WWE had the foresight and patience to book an angle like that, I think it would not only spike the PPV buyrates, but it would make for amazing television. Sadly, I don't think we'll ever see an angle that long in the WWE, due to their ADD-like nature.