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Don't agree with the WWE's booking methods? Do you think that they're just going through the motions? Then do one thing. Tivo Raw and watch TNA Impact!
Yes I know, I sound crazy. TNA's booking seems to be even more clustered than WWE's these days. But hear me out.
Vince doesn't deem TNA as credible competition. He believes that his version of sports entertainment is ok resting on its laurels and collecting 3.0 to 3.5 ratings every week with Raw and sub 2.0 performances with Smackdown.
Now let's say that Raw drops to the 2.0-2.5 range. All the while Impact's rating jumps to 2.2-3.0 range. Wouldn't Vince have to deem TNA as a credible threat, and do all he can to get his viewers back?
It's a known fact that desperate times call for desperate measures, so why not make WWE sweat? Then you'll see WWE pulling out all of the stops to put on a better product. More polls on WWE.com about what you as a fan want to see and most importantly more of what the fans want to see.
They say it's lonely at the top. WWE has been sitting at the pinnacle of the professional wrestling mountain so long, it seems as if they've lost sight of what got them there to begin with. An entertaining, captivating male soap opera with drama and feuds we wanted to see, the right guys getting air time and pushes and believable characters that we as fans loved to see competing.
Do you think that declining ratings will ultimately help WWE programming?
That's what happens when there's competition. When you have to prove to everybody you're the top dog and you're just not going to be knocked from your pedestal.
But when there's a monopoly, there comes complacency. Relaxation. Rest. You do all of the climbing to get to the top, and then you forget what it took to get there. You relax and say "Oh well, I did it!" and not push harder to get better, because there's no longer a measuring stick there to tell you if you're coming up short.
I've been a huge fan of WWE since I was a kid. When Raw was "Raw is War" and Smackdown was The Rock's show. I was watching when Stone Cold was treating his boss like we all wanted to treat ours and The Rock shining up objects and sticking it up peoples candy asses.
But now we get to watch the Bella twins hang over guest stars, and Santino knock out the Usos with his "devastating" cobra.
Something has to give.
So as true fans of the product, I say let's ban together and DVR WWE and tune in to Impact. If the ratings swing works out, there are plenty of good things that will happen.
First of all TNA will begin stepping up the efforts to keep their new found fan base, and just might interest enough hardcore WWE fans to get them to actually become TNA fans also. They have a great amount of talent and if booked properly, I don't think they would have any problems competing with WWE.
We all know that the wrestling industry was at its greatest when WCW Nitro was handing it to "Raw is War" on a weekly basis, and WCW Thunder was opposite Smackdown on Thursday nights.
Competition brings out the best in us. So if you're part of the IWC that thinks that they're more creative than well creative, then ban together and Tivo Raw while catching Impact! The results just may surprise you.
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