Have PPV's become the new Saturday Night's Main Event?

[Scorpio8975]

Well with the news that WWE is wanting to add YET ANOTHER PPV to the yearly line up. It is looking like the PPV's are starting to become the new version of Saturday Night's Main Event. They're starting to use PPV's to not just end feuds but further them as well with key matches, almost exactly like Saturday Night's Main Event was all those years ago.

So my question to you guys...do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?

 

[Ambiguous Turd]

Well with the news that WWE is wanting to add YET ANOTHER PPV to the yearly line up. It is looking like the PPV's are starting to become the new version of Saturday Night's Main Event. They're starting to use PPV's to not just end feuds but further them as well with key matches, almost exactly like Saturday Night's Main Event was all those years ago.

So my question to you guys...do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?

I wasn't under the impression that they were looking to add another PPV to the lineup. Rather, I was under the impression they were changing "Unforgiven" to "Breaking Point" and making it a Submission-based PPV.

However, no, I am not in favor of WWE adding any more PPV's to the schedule. I think the more PPV's they do, the more long-term damage it does to the business. I argue that the same thing is happening now with the amount of wrestling on for free, each and every single week. Vince is over-exposing his product, and I think eventually, people are simply going to lose interest altogether and move on ... since they can't keep up with it all.

 

[rainfellow]

They still make PPVs????? I thought they had stolen the idea from TNA of old and made you buy their monthly episodes.... huh... learn something everyday!!

 

[HBK-aholic]

I wasn't aware they were adding a new PPV, however, if it's true, it's a bad thing for WWE. I think 4-6 is the maximum amount of PPV's they should have per year. Right now, I don't feel specifically excited when it's the weekend of a PPV. That's not me saying I think it'll be bad, as I still get excited, but not much more than if I was sitting down to watch Raw/SD. That's due to the fact we have a show every month now.

The high number of PPV's also means WWE rarely has enough time to sell a new feud to us. Do you all remember how excited you were for WM 25? Now think about how many weeks there were between the last PPV and WM. The WWE could further feuds in the weekly shows, and make us desperate to see the end of it.

 

[sleamey316]

The WWE are not Adding a PPV. They are just changing Unforgiven. They got rid off New Years Revolution and December 2 Remember because they knew they had too many PPVs. However I think 1 a month is fine as they have done it for years now. So they still could get rid of 2 PPVs such as The Bash and Cyber Sunday as 1 a month is plenty. Although since the early 90s they had done 2 british PPVs so I am used to 14 a year.
As for TV shows though, ECW / Superstars have good matches on them but I do think it is a bit much having 4 shows a week. Other than that I still enjoy the WWE and I probably always will.

 

[Greenlight13]

I don't think they are becoming that way because of how many there are (although I hate when they have 2 in a month), it's a decision they've made. They intentionally book their feuds to last longer like they did years ago. Before the Attitude Era guys would face off for the best part of a year but then when the WWE developed or signed up so many extra top level wrestlers every feud was fresh, there were limitless possibilities, so you could succesfully build an interesting feud that ends in 1-2 months.

It was because of all these new stars that they implemented the draft system and now there aren't enough stars per brand to keep doing that. If you have everyone feud with everyone for 1-2 months, then even if you keep bringing up new talent every possible rivalry is done with in a a couple of years. Account for faces and heels being kept seperate, only the very finest mid-carders being allowed to work with the main eventers and it just gets stale way too quick unless you have people feuding for months on end.

This is why I don't care for the WWE as much as I used to, I know heading into a PPV that the result with be inconclusive and nothing but a set-up for the next one (and the one after that). TNA build more interesting feuds on paper to me, but they ALWAYS blow it with a ridiculous finish (Foley and Sting winning anyone?), and ROH suffer from the fans knowing who wins 3 months before the damn thing airs (plus they've taken to headlining them with tag matches which in my opinion sucks, they should have a major, major one on one title match).

I don't buy PPVs (aside from Wrestlemania) but given the business model of all three companies I don't think I would if I did, unless it's a BIG show, you know you are going to feel robbed of your hard earned cash.

 

[Age of Orton]

In theory yes pay per views are the new Saturday night main event.

The only issue I have with 12-13 or 14 PPV's a year is they all feel the same, from back in 1994 when I got into wrestling the top 5 always felt special then the In Your Houses came and felt like fillers with something different on each, Lumberjack Main event, Triple header, Bulldog/Diesel (may not have been great but was better then Mable) Bulldog/Bret and HBK HBK/Owen matches.
Nowadays all the PPV's feel the same to me, WrestleMania being the stand out one due to the hype.

The way the business is today is due to much TV time and PPV's, some feuds seem rushed and tend to be spoiled and then redone 6 months down the line (Edge/Jeff Hardy for example) like I said the problem lays with to much TV time and times have changed.

 

[Poop Master Flex]

No, PPV's haven't become the new Saturday Night's Main Event (Saturday Night's Main Event was much better and free).

Another thing was Saturday Night's Main Event happened sporadically (not every Saturday) and 9 times out of 10 there was always a reason to have a Saturday Night's Main Event (it wasn't just done because there hasn't been one in a while, it was done to continue or cap off a feud, like when Bundy crushed Hogans ribs to set up their WM2 Cage Match).

I think PPV's have become more like RAW than anything (They don't give too many good reasons to justify spending 40 bucks. It's almost like paying $40 for something you can see everyday.