Raw this week featured a video for WWEs new stand up for WWE campaign. A horrible piece of propaganda littered with inaccuracies and lies. I honestly lost count of everything that was wrong with the video and then they went and stated this fact "78% of Raw viewers are over 18", so why in the blue hell is the product PG now?
Well the answer is quite clear Linda is running for Senate and Hasbro's contract with WWE pretty much demands it. So until the 78% of us do the right thing and switch off we have nobody to blame for the piss poor product on show.
I for one used to watch Raw for the wrestling, the cutting edge angles and the builds for PPVs. Nowadays the build for a PPV happens 1 week before the show (as was the case with Bragging Rights).
I only tune in now for what COULD be. They could one day cash in on what they promise, WWE have a strong roster across both it's brands and some technically gifted wrestlers and could entertain it's audience once more.
Now everyone knows i'm a Cena hater, but it was'nt always the case, in fact i was quite a fan of his lame freestyling gimmick, now he's become Superman working for a heel faction and the only way you know that is a little armband you can barely see under his t-shirt.
A lot of people say that if you start picking holes in the product it's time to take a step back, look at it for what it is and stop reading the forums, message boards and the smart magazines. If I do that I would have NO interest in the product whatsover as it does'nt deliver as a form of entertainment anymore.
I like Dexter, Inbetweeners, South Park, True Blood, Family Guy and WWE no longer fits in with that, instead WWE is now going for the Ben 10 crowd, the Hannah Montana fans and does'nt care about 78% of it's audience. This is what i truly don't get.
What makes it worse is that those under 18 have no way of paying for the PPVs and by WWE targeting the kids it's making it hard for adults that don't have kids to justify paying that amount of money every 3 weeks for what is a child friendly pantomine. No wonder UFC is doing so well right now and if TNA could just book solidly for a few months who knows if they could actually become a threat to WWE.
Stand up for WWE. I wish i could sit down and watch it without wanting to smash my TV.
0 comments:
Post a Comment