WWE News: WWE Institutes Big Format Change to Monday Night Raw
WWE News: How Will the Format of Monday Night Raw Change?
Ever since Triple H took over as the WWE C.O.O., Monday Night Raw has generally followed one specific theme.
Triple H comes out to start the show with a promo, one or multiple wrestlers join him, they talk for 10-15 minutes and set up the main event of that night's show or an upcoming pay-per-view. There are a few tweaks here and there, but that's the basic gist of it.
I'm already sick of it, though.
It's the same formula week after week after week, and I'd rather that we didn't have to start every episode of Raw with a festival of promos. As it turns out, my wish may be coming true.
Good call, WWE. Good call.
While storylines and the "soap opera" aspects of professional wrestling are the driving force behind the business, I tune into Monday Night Raw primarily to see actual wrestling.
It's fine that the WWE sets up the show's main event and that there are a number of promos throughout the show, but some of these show-opening segments drag on for what seems like forever. As a result, we typically get less matches or shorter matches that aren't of high quality.
By opening Raw with a match, however, we're getting what we paid to see: In-ring competition.
Hopefully, the WWE will stick with this formula, open the show with some quality wrestling and then let us decide whether or not we want to change the channel.
If we don't, then ratings should improve, and the WWE will have gotten exactly what it wanted.
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WWE News: How Will the Format of Monday Night Raw Change?
Ever since Triple H took over as the WWE C.O.O., Monday Night Raw has generally followed one specific theme.
Triple H comes out to start the show with a promo, one or multiple wrestlers join him, they talk for 10-15 minutes and set up the main event of that night's show or an upcoming pay-per-view. There are a few tweaks here and there, but that's the basic gist of it.
I'm already sick of it, though.
It's the same formula week after week after week, and I'd rather that we didn't have to start every episode of Raw with a festival of promos. As it turns out, my wish may be coming true.
Monday’s RAW featured a chance in format from the typical weekly broadcasts. Instead of opening with the long interview segment that would set up the main angle for the rest of the show, WWE opened with Randy Orton vs. Drew McIntyre – and held off on the long interview until the end of the second quarter hour.
The reasoning behind this change is that WWE is looking compete with their stiff competition from NFL’s Monday Night Football and the MLB baseball playoffs. WWE tried to keep viewers tuned in longer at the start of the show because they were coming off Hell in a Cell the night before and they knew fans would be tuning in for the first big in-ring segment. By putting the first storyline segment in the second quarter hour, their hope was that viewers would stay tuned in through the Orton-McIntyre match and beyond.
Good call, WWE. Good call.
While storylines and the "soap opera" aspects of professional wrestling are the driving force behind the business, I tune into Monday Night Raw primarily to see actual wrestling.
It's fine that the WWE sets up the show's main event and that there are a number of promos throughout the show, but some of these show-opening segments drag on for what seems like forever. As a result, we typically get less matches or shorter matches that aren't of high quality.
By opening Raw with a match, however, we're getting what we paid to see: In-ring competition.
Hopefully, the WWE will stick with this formula, open the show with some quality wrestling and then let us decide whether or not we want to change the channel.
If we don't, then ratings should improve, and the WWE will have gotten exactly what it wanted.
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