4wrestling wrote:
Originally Posted by gangsta207therevolution
The Rock is the only person who is still able to physically wrestle a full schedule who could single handedly turn CENA heel. Everything else would have to be a group and the story would never be good enough. Cena is not turning heel for the forseeable future unless Vince gets a burr up his @!% gets at least 85% control of the company and says to hell with advertisement and lets the personalities take on a mind of their own. Wrestling fans dont care who is the hero and who is the villian as long as those guys can play the part and right now sans Miz everyone in the WWE is either booked in a terrible fashion. (Orton tonight) or stuck behind inferior wrestlers and or actors. ( Christian ,CM punk) and or cannot live up to the shadows of the guys that are still there (HHH, Taker and to a lesser extent Edge)
Now were stuck in a situation where Vince has to answer to board members and stock holders and he cannot turn down the corporate money hes recieving as a result of the PG era. That board is never going to pass up on a guaranteed income with guaranteed dividends to please a segnment of people who they in their ignorance whould characterise as not having grown up.
Its too bad Dixie Carter is too much of an idiot to see that she can single handedly bring the 18-35 audience back to wrestling in record numbers.
If she were to go out and get a CM Punk, a Christian ( again) and live with 2.0 ratings for a while. If she would get rid of the old farts who stated from day 1 that they were running the show and just taking Dixie's money cause it was there, maybe her head wouldnt always be stuck so far up her own @!% that she cant justify her involvement in this business. If she would for god's sake stop taping shows 3 weeks in advance, travel at least every week, and find 30 men and 10 women to develop/ help sustain the business she would be just fine.
I agree with you that The Rock is probably the only person who can turn Cena heel, and even then, I don't know. I know a lot of these little kids look at Rock as the heel in this program.
To me, the only 100% guaranteed way to turn Cena heel is have evil Mr. McMahon return, and have Cena swerve everyone joining him to become the corporate champion (obviously replaying angles they've done in the past). I think that is the only way you get the little kids to turn on Cena.
You're right on about Vince having to answer to shareholders. With PPV and other business aspects way down, he needs to deliver something to them to make money, and merchandise and toys are where it's at. However, doing this leaves WWE in just a holding pattern that may slowly continue to sink them. Many times the best companies need to dramatically change things, even if it means a short term hit, to better the company long term. Turn Cena heel would only be one part to this, but it could be the start of a bigger sign of change in WWE.
As for TNA, it's been proven by this point that it doesn't matter what talent you bring in (outside of a Rock, Austin, or Cena), it's not going to affect the rating in any significant way. Hogan, Sting, Foley, Nash, Hall, Angle, Hardy, Hardy, RVD, Christian, ECW, and the list goes on. It's the product that's the problem. And I really don't think it has anything to do with travel or taping weeks in advance. It's simply the writing is awful. Nothing makes sense. Matches are extremely short and meaningless. They throw 10,000 things at you a show, and fans don't remember any of it. They constantly use insider references that go over 99.9% of the audience's head. TNA is WWE-light, but only a worse product. So why the hell would anyone tune in? TNA needs to clean house. Start fresh. Go back to simple, old school logical book with great 10, 15, 20 minute matches. But that won't happen as long as Dixie is in charge. The company will probably go out of business first.
A change in booking and getting Hogan and Russo out at bare minimum are the changes they need to make
I mentioned the stars as a way to sustain the company until the guys who they would develop became able to carry the company.
Would you disagree that the entire show needs a production overhall?
How can WWE improve its TV product. Cause sometimes I feel that even if the Attitude era was still in full effect the company would be suffering.
