WWE lacking content in both raw and smackdown

@redfang (967)
August 30, 2008 3:33pm CST
I've been noticing for a while that smackdown was becoming more and more lacking in content most notably matches but recently it seems to be getting worse and worse to the extent where now the disease has spread to raw. Each show used to end with a main event and then the programme would stop, now you get a main event 15 mins before the end and then 15 mins of total Carp from a pointless story line. I mean ever since that fat mare vickie guerrero was appointed general manager of smackdown we've had the most stupidest of story lines and of course with HER at the centre, then the undertaker is dragged into it as well ( hardly the best use of this future hall of famer ), this week's abomonation came after what should have been the main event match between triple H and Shelton Benjamin when Khali slammed Triple H to the mat after H had won against Benjamin the show owuld usually have ended but instead we are granted the luck of hearing Vickie guerrero screaming when the lights in her office go out and then the show ends, i mean COME ONNNNNNN is it only me who thinks this kind of Carp is not needed? i mean we even only got 6 matches in the whole show of which none had any substance other than Kane and batista, we had tons of talking, oh my god did we have tons of talking. i'm getting fed up of how much Carp they are putting out now, in a 2 hour show we have 30 mins of adverts and then 60 mins of total Carp and then 30 mins of matches dotted here and there, i mean come on for god sake is this really what we want to be seeing? don't get me wrong they have to have story lines but they don't have to have stupid ones and they don't have to fill in the gaps with the Carp that they are doing it's just getting beyond a joke now, at least with tna there isn't so much carp. Bring back the good old days of wwf.
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@babostwick (2036)
• United States
1 Sep 08
They did rush into the Batista-Cena bout, which could have been a huge Wrestlemania match as a first time encounter but that's not going to happen. Granted, the match was interesting to say the least but you have to wonder if they had waited until then, would the build be as interesting. Smackdown I don't even watch because as long as Vickie is GM, I won't be watching. I'm sorry but she's really annoying and not very good to watch. Has to be one of the single worst GMs ever and has that honor of the "Get off my TV" type of thing going on. Raw really needs to start doing more because how many times can you keep the same guys on top facing CM Punk? It gets rather repetitive and not exactly what I would call exciting. I don't mind the championship bouts but it just needs to be interesting. I suggest having the IC and US Titles defended more on TV. I could say the same for the tag titles but they don't do jack with them anyway. The Woman's and Diva's Belts should be combined and have one undisputed woman's champion and have the champ be on both shows. I'd say do that with the tag belts.
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@redfang (967)
15 Sep 08
I have got to agree with you about the belts, it seems like the only ones that are focused on are the two main titles, the matches at ppv's for the other titles are lacking most of the time though we might get lucky once in a while and one of them will be decent. I also agree about the womens championship there is no need to have two belts and the smackdown divas championship looks horrible anyway. One thing i would like to see though would be the cruiserweight championship resurected, the cruiserweights were a unique brand in the wwe and they were silly to get rid of it, TNA has the x-division and it works really well so maybe they should take note.
• India
31 Aug 08
Yes man, I miss wwf and Rock, Austin and everyone as wwe is just a mess.
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@redfang (967)
15 Sep 08
Yep them were the good old days.
31 Aug 08
I've noticed recently that they have been going back to the old style punch bag style matches, where each match is against a nobody and that nobody gets the crap kicked out of him in no time. Hopefully though there should be loads of new storylines starting up in preparation for Wrestlemania (they need big long boring build ups). If the WWE doesn't buck up they are gonna loose all the new viewers (and the old viewers) they got when Vince was giving away his millions - it seems all the good storylines and matches ended when Vince was supposedly injured. I did an article on the WWE Storylines ( http://www.squidoo.com/wwestorylines ) quite awhile ago about how silly some of the storylines were, but ... the storylines were alot better back then, now there seems to be very little going on and what is going on is so damn boring (and overdone) especially the Shawn Michaels storyline. Thankfully though I record all the WWE shows and watch them later, that way I can use the fast forward button to get past all the crap - or play it back at 1.5x speed to make it look better:)
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@redfang (967)
31 Aug 08
i couldn't agree with you more, i too record every show so i can fast forward past all the crap and the adverts but what really pees me off is the lack of matches, out of the whole show you end up fast forwarding past 3/4 of it, it's stupid.
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@kukreja (33)
• Canada
30 Aug 08
that is so true. that wat i always say as well. like wwe wasnt bad but they are turning it into crap and crap every single day. now these days they got gay wrestlers anywas. bring wwf back man.=).
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@redfang (967)
30 Aug 08
amen to that bruther
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@shrashira (438)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Let me say this first... I like TNA. The problem with the WWE is that the level of competition that WCW brought to them was greater than that of TNA. TNA has great wrestlers but the storylines are not enough to threaten the WWE. I think that TNA wants to get the rating by wrestling alone. This my friend won't happen. Perhaps they need to get the writers that werew around when wrestling was totally awesome. The time I am speaking of was the early 90's. Pressure the creative team of WWE and you will get what we all want. until then we will just get "temp to hire" storyline fodder.
• India
31 Aug 08
Yes man, I miss wwf and Rock, Austin and everyone as wwe is just a mess.
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