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Post by onleeone643 on Feb 26, 2013 12:32:56 GMT -5
Because Rock and Austin are awesome and Cena just sucks.
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Post by Brankind on Feb 26, 2013 12:39:20 GMT -5
While I agree with a LOT of the points made here, it is also true that not everything in the Attitude Era was golden, and people look at it through rose colored glasses. I think the lack of patience is a big thing. If something doesn't work immediately, they yank them off tv. I agree , it was far from perfect, Maybe it was the the fact you had Nitro vs RAW to make it more exciting. Plus ECW was cool as hell. they way guys jumped ship and the it was nto as easy to get news like it is now. You had some ECW/WWF stuff going on that got peopel talking, over all it created an amazing time. Maybe that feeling is what we need , not better writing?
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Feb 26, 2013 20:45:59 GMT -5
The main thing - TV time then meant more. A guy would get thirty seconds or a minute of TV time and have to make it count, and get his character across. Now, a lot of guys barely have a character and they still get ten minute matches that nobody cares about. There are too many matches now with no buildup, and they last too long. Every combination of wrestlers is pretty much burnt out because they've all had too many matches and too few angles and promos. Look at Cesaro - not over in the slightest, has no impact as a character, but he's had multiple PPV-length matches with everyone from Miz to Orton to Justin Gabriel. Sheamus and Barrett have just started feuding, but it seems old because they've fought so much over the last year.
A large part of it is that when business was going well, the main guy storylines kind of wrote themselves. But since it took a downturn in 2001, the writing team has mainly focused on the main event stories because they're the ones that draw and they want them to draw more. It's a shame.
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Post by BØRNS on Feb 27, 2013 3:01:21 GMT -5
Smaller roster, and also brand specific PPV's.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2013 6:34:30 GMT -5
Smaller roster, and also brand specific PPV's. smaller roster yes......but Brand specific PPVs werent in the Attitude Era.brand split happened in 2002.
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Post by GCYUM on Feb 27, 2013 12:00:06 GMT -5
Umm... what? How is the WWE competing against The Walking Dead? WWE's focal points are Mondays and Fridays... not Sundays. WWE PPVs are on Sundays. Walking Dead is on Sundays. The WWE TV shows are supposed to build up the interest and desire to buy the PPVs. I have passed on several WWE PPVs because of bad build-ups and predictable match finishes in favor of watching the latest episode of Walking Dead. That is a competition. Ehh... no. WWE and that show "compete" once a month on Sunday and you have to pay $50 to watch a PPV while that show is free.. That is hardly competing at all. Competing would be Monday Night Football and RAW. (I don't get the hoopla over that show anyway. I tried watching it once and it was so BORING.)
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Post by T on Feb 27, 2013 16:45:15 GMT -5
Having one World Champion as the focus of the show, and the other belts meaning something. At the moment, the IC and US titles are seen as the 3rd and 4th Titles (equivalent of AE European and Hardcore/LHW), which means there is no interest.
The inconsistent brand split is stupid too. Either have all of them on both shows, or keep them to one show. If Sheamus and Del Rio aren't main eventing on Raw, I can't take them as seriously when they main event SmackDown.
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