Every Since Monday Night Raw went three
hours it has at times during each show feel like a chore to watch.
Making something you love feel like a chore is the quickest way to
turn people away but it doesn't have to be that way WWE Raw could
work at three hours and be entertaining from start to finish. Here I
present to you seven ways in which a three hour Raw can work and
while we are at it improve WWE as a whole:
Unify the WWE & World titles:
The two world titles was a great idea
when the brand split first happened and the wrestlers on Raw and
Smackdown never crossed over to the other shows. That time is long
over now though. Somehow there is still a brand split but its only in
the loosest of ways with Raw and Smackdown wrestlers showing up on
whatever show they want. Hell earlier this year Raw became “Raw
Supershow” officially allowing Smackdown wrestlers to show up on Raw
whenever they want. The brand split still held where Raw wrestlers
stuck to Raw, that is unless there was a storyline reason. But lets
face any wrestler can go on either show they want so the point of a
two world titles is dead. That said I think they should hold off on a
unification match until Wrestlemania this year to give it more of a
big match feel but its time for the Undisputed WWE Championship to
make a return. That said I never liked it when they called the title
that, call it what they did before WWE bought WCW and call it “The
WWE World Championship” as a bonus that all incorporates both
titles name into one. The worst part about it would be that odds are
that the beautiful looking World Title will disappear.
Unify the Intercontinental and US titles:
Same story with the world titles, there
is no need for two secondary titles so these two need to be unified
as well. Alone these titles have no prestige anymore but if you
unify them you can make a big deal out of it and make the title feel
special again, have former World and WWE champions compete for it
while still using it to elevate the younger talent. I wouldn't wait
to unify these titles until Wrestlemania though for this one the
sooner the better. Since the IC title has a much greater history in
WWE thats the title that should stay.
Make the tag team division relevant
again:
Every week we hear on TV how the tag
division is fiercely competitive. They must think we are all idiots.
That division hasn't been important since the early 2000's when you
had a deep tag division with Edge & Christian, The Hardy Boyz,
The Dudley Boyz, Too Cool, The APA, The New Age Outlaws and more.
Back then we had real tag teams but the last half a dozen or more
years our tag teams are more of the two wrestlers slapped together
type. Rarely have they had tag team names and their attire didn't
match, those things might not seem all that important but it is. It
shows better unity between the two wrestlers making them feel more
like a team. All that said things are not really as bad right now as
they have been in recent years, it looks like the tag division is on
a upswing again even if it is going very slowly. For the first time
in years we have more then two tag teams that don't feel like two
guys slapped together. Curt Hawkins & Tyler Reks feel the most
slapped together and they were but they are slowing making it work
for them and months ago even took the step to get the matching
attires. Primo & Epico, The Uso's, and The Prime Time Players all
feel like real tag teams. Oddly enough the Tag Champions Kofi
Kingston & R-Truth are the team that feels like and are the most
slapped together of the teams in WWE right now. I'd say get the
titles off of those two let them go back to single action and give
the titles to one of the teams mentioned above. After that bring in
more teams and really build up that division and make it feel special
again.
Give the divas more time:
The divas division is nothing more then
a joke for two reasons. First off most of the girls have no business
in a wrestling ring with minimum training at best. The second and in
my opinion bigger reason is the lack of time given to the diva matches. Why would anyone care about the Divas title if the matches
get less then two minutes of TV time each week and if your lucky
five minutes on a pay per view. WWE needs to break out of that trend and look
to their past on how to make a good Divas division again. Before
Trish Stratus and Lita called it quits the Divas matches were just as
long as any other match. With Raw at three hours now there is no
reason you can't give these girls 10 minutes out of your three hour
long show. You can make people care about the divas again taking the
girls who can't wrestle well such as Kelly Kelly and Alicia Fox
follow the example of Rosa Mendes and other Divas who have taken a
strictly managerial position. Granted both women have shown a lot of
improvement which is all well and good but keep the title away from
them until they are actually good enough to carry it. Instead leave
the wrestling to the likes of Beth Phoenix, Tamina Snuka, Natayla and
to a lesser extent Eve and current champion Layla who have both shown
they can actually be decent if given the time to wrestle and improve.
While we are at it Hire back Kharma who was fired for no reason and
bring in Sara Del Ray who I heard was recently hired. Del Ray,
Phoenix, Natayla, Kharma and Snuka have it in them to make the Divas division feel like its worthy of more then just the time to use the
bathroom or in my case take the dogs out to use the bathroom.
Bring back the Crusierweight title:
With a world title and a secondary
title gone the titles instantly feel more special because there are
less of them. That said I think there would still be a place for a
Crusierweight title to make a come back. The reason this title could
make a comeback is because it would be different from the other
titles that anyone could compete for. With this one there is a weight
limit that would keep the heavyweights from competing for it.
Traditionally the weight limit for these titles have been 220-225 lbs
I suggest we lower the weight limit to 210-215 lbs instead since more
and more of the world title contenders these days are closer to
220-225 already. Bring in a few high flyers and make this division
the spectacle that it should be which is the problem WWE has always
had with this title. Don't let it become a joke again with divas or
Hornswoggle as champion. Make it serious. Reintroduce it in a eight
man tournament. On the current roster that tournament could consist
of of Sin Cara, Tyson Kidd, Evan Bourne, Hunico, Justin Gabriel,
Yoshi Tatsu and to really give it a rub Rey Mysterio and Daniel Bryan
who weighs in at only 210 lbs himself. To have two former world
champions competing for the title and praising it up will make it feel
important right away. During the tournament give each match a bare
minimum of 10 minutes with the tournament final having at least 20.
It shouldn't have 20 minutes each week but 10 minutes to the crusierweight champion while having another crusierweight match on
the show would make the division feel important right away.
More time for matches and less time
for backstage skits and bad comedy:
With three hours every week there is no
reason why the matches we are getting right now on the show are as
long as they were when there was only two hours. This isn't a race
anymore its a marathon. There should be at least two matches that are
long enough for two segments on the show. That's two matches that
have commercial breaks during them. Longer matches usually mean better
matches and better matches mean more people caring about the product.
It seems like Raw went three hours it seems like the amount of
matches and match times are the same and the only thing that has
increased is the amount of backstage skits and comedy. We don't want
or need that we want and need more wrestling. I hate to take a term
from TNA but WWE needs to make wrestling matter again.
Work on getting the younger talent
over:
One of the main reason for the brand
split all those years ago was to be able to give TV time to the
younger wrestlers who would of been overshadowed by all of the
established wrestlers that were already on the roster and found their
way there after WCW was bought up. That's not the case anymore and if
anything WWE needs more main event stars what better way of doing
that then by giving the younger guys a chance to shine. Give them
more time on TV both in matches and by cutting short promos before
the matches. This method has always worked to get younger guys over
for a reason. Also while your getting a younger guy over don't bring
in a main eventer and have them destroy that person every week. Zack
Ryder looked like he was going places late last year until Kane
kicked the shit out of him every week on TV and made to look like a
loser every chance they got earlier this year. If you want to have a
main evener beat a younger guy that's fine but have it be a
competitive match where the main eventer wins. That way even in a
loss the younger guy seems like he belongs and that he could be a
main eventer as well.
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