If You Were the CEO of WWE...

[cmedge]

Remember how Vince had to kayfabe step down as the Chairman of the company and how Triple H kayfabe stepped up and became The "COO" of the WWE. Just imagine instead of kayfabe but for real that Vince stepped down as the Chairman and that for real you became the "COO" of World Wrestling Entertainment. What changes would you make for the company?

Here's a few that I would make..

-Raw Supershow (With SD stars appearing stays)
-But RAW/SD go back to having indvidual PPVS.
-Less Gimmick Match Themed PPV's (TLC and MITB stay) but do away with HITC and change the name of EC back to No Way Out.
-More importance of the midcard division (Both titles should always be defended and the prestige should be brought back e.g Dolph/Cody)
-More importance of tag team division (It's not impossible to do)
-More importance of Divas Division
-Go back to slowly building future top guys (Not throwing a MITB cash in e.g Swagger)
-Unpredictable events occuring (Like CM Punk Summer 2011) but they need to make sense
-Attitude Era like promos (Attitude Era was the best era for promos) but the match quality of these last years stays the same.
- More edginess like the Attitude Era but the same ideas of PG era stays the same (No headchairshots, blood a little but reduced)
-More interesting gimmicks but not overly exaggerated (The 80's)
- Switch Cole/Jerry lawler's heel/face roles
-JR back on TV Raw (3 Man group again Lawler, COle and JR)


That's all for now what changes would you make?

 

[VinnieSunshine]

~RAW and Smackdown split. No more cross branding like on RAW.

~Bring back Joey Styles to the announce team and have Joey/JR on RAW and Lawler/Matthews on Smackdown

~Cole is a manager similar to how Vickie was to get over Ziggler

~Tag Team revival. Put more than 3 teams together

~Cruiserweight division with the title split between RAW and Smackdown

~Emphasis on mid-card titles to build up stars

~Get rid of the MITB. Yeah its cool but its overused and predictable.

~12-1-3 PPVs a year. WWE is getting to this and its going to help buyrates

~Written points for promos done by rookie talents, more off-the-cuff promos for veterans.

~Bring back the womens title and showcase the ones who CAN wrestle and not models who were taught.

~larger reigns with titles. No more 2 or 3 month title reigns and none of this switching back and forth

~NEW TITLE DESIGNS...all of them.

 

[TeamExtream97]

i would boost the tag team / divas divison by hiring hardys back , 3d , and bring back LITA trish stratus victoria ( crazy gimmick) melina with johnny nitro and joey .

bring back blood . give alica fox diva belt. return of rvd. bring womans belt back. fire santino .bring back old ppvs. return of hbk. lita teams with hardys.hire maryse back.less michel cole segments. longer diva matches. put superstars back on tv. raw vs amackdown agian,

 

[thegeo015]

i would move cole to smackdown and not on raw permanently, with striker, and booker.

i would bring back the cruiserweight, and not screw it over with hornswoggle, and also have it defened once every week.

i would have money in the bank once a year, but only 1 for all brands.

i would make sure their is altleast 15 tag teams, and atleast 30 min of tag wrestling a week.

bring back maryse, meline, layla, kharma, and gail kim, and make a divas tag division. also have divas atleast 20 min per show.

let whoever has whatever title, to design it to make it suite them.

i would make a seperate tv show on saturdays for kids about 1.5 hours. and make the intercontinental title the main title.

make cruserweight, tag, divas, and divas tag go to every show.

i would bring back a shit load of guys who arent great but i miss, ie) masters, david hart smith.....

get younger guys like drew, rhodes, usos, hunico, debiase, kidd...ect a title shot/title every year.

have title reigns atleast 3 months a wrestler.... oops i mean entertainer

make raw and smackdown 2.5 hours, just because raw needs more time for matches because of most of the gay promos. and smackdowns matches are sweet, most of the time.

and last but not least, get rid of the us title. the interncontinental title means the entire world, so why have a us title....

peace out, hope you like my opinion

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[theViper]

i would boost the tag team / divas divison by hiring hardys back , 3d , and bring back LITA trish stratus victoria ( crazy gimmick) melina with johnny nitro and joey .

bring back blood . give alica fox diva belt. return of rvd. bring womans belt back. fire santino .bring back old ppvs. return of hbk. lita teams with hardys.hire maryse back.less michel cole segments. longer diva matches. put superstars back on tv. raw vs amackdown agian,

I really want to call you stupid, and belittle you, but I figure too many others will do it. And I understand that it's possible the 97 in your name, is the year you were born, which can explain a lot.

More often than not, new age wrestling fans don't know much about the 80's and early 90's wrestling. They just know the end of the Attitude Era, and the people that came from it. With that being said, this is what I would do, to personally make the company in my eyes, a great company.

- Cut NXT, and allow FCW to have their own segment on a certain night, and make it stream-able after the live episode, to see how many people actually watch it, and it'd give you good numbers to see if it'd be worth bringing to television eventually [ per most households have DVRs ]

- Bring in talents that can help the business and help mold/shape the young kids. Booker T, Dustin Rhodes, are some that do it now. A great person to bring into the the E would be the likes of Sting and others that know and appreciate the business.

- Get rid of the multiple championships of each, but not them all. There should be one world championship, and it should be the World Heavyweight Championship, not the WWE. Have your main tiered people that go after the main title, around 6 guys so it stays fresh. Leave the Intercontinental Titles, AND United States Championship, however make the United States Championship more like a Television title. This could be used to develop people and to display the talents of rising stars. The Intercontinental can remain as a second tier championship that shouldn't be frowned upon as "it's not the big one."

- Develop the Tag Team division. What is so wrong with being known as a great tag team? Teams like Motor City Machine Guns and Beer Money are a definition of what it should be. Why do people frown on it? It doesn't change you being a good wrestler at all, just because you're in a match that has multiple people. If anything, they allow for better matches because you can take a rest and not always have all the strain on yourself. Also, I know the Hot Tag things are awesome, but it's so over done with wrestling where there is a hot tag on both sides, and one side gets the better over the other. It's ridiculous. It has to be more believable. And just because a tag team is liked, gives you no right/reason to break them up into a singles division.

- All of these can not be done without one thing, a cut in roster. There is no reason for having so many guys on the roster. It's costly, and one's that get lost in the mix are nothing more than house show jobbers. With that being said, house shows should be cut down to a lesser schedule by around 20-30 shows. This would also allow the wrestlers to spend a little more time with their families and more allotted rest.

- Add a cruiser-weight division, for purposes that most already don't need to hear.

- Bring Raw and Smackdown together, because there will not be as many wrestlers. Now this is where it gets tricky. The issue with having two shows, with the same roster is because of the staleness/repetition, but make it so it's always unpredictable about who will be on what. Let's say because, CM Punk wasn't on Raw, he could show up on Smackdown, or the vice. This would allow more time for promos AND wrestling. Where as opposed to Raw being more promo based, and SD being more of the wrestling. You don't need to jam pack a ton of stuff into a two hour show, so some matches only last roughly thirty seconds, aka divas matches. Not that I'm complaining, because they flat out suck something awful. With that being said...

- Have some of the guys teach the girls, and stop only picking up the "bomb shells". It's pathetic. Who cares if they look good? It's called wrestling. Let them wrestle. Beth Phoenix, Natalya, and Karma are all good choices, but you could bring in more and with the relaxing of the schedule by 20-30 shows, it would allow the ones who didn't want such a hard schedule in the first place, to come back to the main company.

- Don't let people stay past a certain stage. In this case, I mean re-using guys time and time again, just for a quick jump in ratings. They're going to fluctuate, especially when going against the NFL and other things that are unscripted.

I have to get back to work now, but I have many more ideas. Honestly, I know it will get me no where just saying them. But getting them off my chest, makes me feel a little bit better.

 

[MrAsmith97]

I have quite a few but ill list my main, bye bye diva WRESTLERS, Diva wrestling is a waist of time the only reason anyone really cares is because they are hot. Now they can stage to manage but as far as wrestling goes drop the divas division

 

[Honkey_Kong]

I would do quite a few things differently

1. Offer the World Wildlife Fund 20 million to buy the WWF name from them. Thus changing the name back to the World Wrestling Federation.

2. I would ban the word "entertainment" and all other forms and tenses of the word. Calling it "sports entertainment" instead of wrestling basically is breaking kayfabe and calling it fake every single time. And the fans (and wrestling news site writers too) use the word "entertaining" for the same purpose. They're like "I know it's fake, but I had a good time anyways."

3. Less focus on the story line and more about the wrestling. I want to watch pro-wrestling, not some ******ed gimmicks and overly extended promos. Granted some story is necessary to sell the matches, but it's out of hand. And it's because the wrestling is an afterthought. Since wrestling is what is important people who can't work good consistently would be getting future endeavored.

4. Reduce the number of singles titles to two. Unify the WWF and World Heavyweight Championships to be one title. And unify the IC and US titles. I would also drop the "divas" division entirely since nobody outside of a few weirdo IWC marks cares about them. I'd still keep a few of the Divas incase I needed them to dance on top of the arena (ala kimona).

5. Emphasize tag team wrestling. Not just use tag teams as a way of getting people not over some exposure. I mean having a division nearly as important as the top tier of singles wrestling.

6. Fire all of the announcers except King and JR. And offer Joey Styles his old job back with some changes (no longer yelling in his ear all the time).

 

[VinnieSunshine]

judging by your ending of your post Im going to assume that you are young.

i would move cole to smackdown and not on raw permanently, with striker, and booker.

i would bring back the cruiserweight, and not screw it over with hornswoggle, and also have it defened once every week.

Ok, these would work. However a belt doesn't need to be defended every week. It loses its value if that happens.

i would have money in the bank once a year, but only 1 for all brands.

i would make sure their is altleast 15 tag teams, and atleast 30 min of tag wrestling a week.

MITB works. Its already once a year though so there is no change.

15 tag teams and 30 mins of tag wrestling is too much. Even in its prime there weren't that many teams and the division was never given that much time. Again, thats overkill.

bring back maryse, meline, layla, kharma, and gail kim, and make a divas tag division. also have divas atleast 20 min per show.

let whoever has whatever title, to design it to make it suite them.

Maryese doesn't wrestle, Melina is a ****, can only scream, and is a spot monkey like her man, Layla never left just is injured same with Kharma only shes pregnant, Gail Kim is a waste. No tag division for the divas because thats too much diva action and 20 minutes for divas is too much.

i would make a seperate tv show on saturdays for kids about 1.5 hours. and make the intercontinental title the main title.

make cruserweight, tag, divas, and divas tag go to every show.

A seperate show on a day that is dominated by cartoons and kids shows is not going to sell, and an hour and a half is strange timing. Not much can be done.

Cruiserweight, diva and tag on EVERY show is fine, but again too much is overkill. If this happens where do you place the main eventers?

i would bring back a shit load of guys who arent great but i miss, ie) masters, david hart smith.....

get younger guys like drew, rhodes, usos, hunico, debiase, kidd...ect a title shot/title every year.

Bring back guys who never got over? How is that helping?

Giving guys like Rhodes, Drew, Hunico, etc., a title/title shot every year is again...OVERKILL. They lose their prestige if it happens too much. Most of tht guys listed aren't worthy of a title or a shot, and to do it every year is asinine.

have title reigns atleast 3 months a wrestler.... oops i mean entertainer

make raw and smackdown 2.5 hours, just because raw needs more time for matches because of most of the gay promos. and smackdowns matches are sweet, most of the time.

Title reigns at least 3 months, on average, already happens.

Again with the extra half hour. RAW is going good as is and already is allowed overrun by USA. The gay promos as you call them, for the most part, work. You have to advance the story somehow and you cant have fights or matches every week to do it. Smackdown doesn't need extra time either.

and last but not least, get rid of the us title. the interncontinental title means the entire world, so why have a us title....

Why have a WWE title when the WHC means THE WORLD? Its to seperate and have 2 diferent champions. Each brand has their own mid-card champion. It helps push seperate talent at the same time instead of one at a time.

peace out, hope you like my opinion

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Mature aren't we. Yes its good to have an opinion, but there comes a point where you have to look at your opinions and ask yourself..."is this really believable?"

Your promotion would fail if most of these ideas came true.

 

[dman1373]

fire the writing team including steph
write the show myself.
-hire paul heyman back cause hes not a fucking ******.
-Have a unification match for the world title. Have it be defended on each show.
-Change the brands back so that they only mingle going up to mania or if their is a fued between brands or gms.
-push john cena down to upper mid card and keep him out of the title picture for a while.
-Have 1 ppv per month.
-bring back saturday night main event for 2 weeks before any of the big four
-fire mason ryan and ezekial jackson, good they have no talent
-try my hardest to hire somoa joe
-hire someone that knows what the moves are call the matches. (god michael cole doesn't know any wrestling moves.)
-make triple h a manger of dolph zigler to get him where he needs to go
will finish this soon

 

[24fawwe12fa24]

- Have separate titles for each brand, Raw: World Heavyweight Championship, Intercontinental Championship, WWE Unified Tag Team Championships and the Women's Championship. Smackdown: WWE Championship, United States Championship, Cruizerweight Championship and WWE Unified Tag Team Championships).
- Make the United States Championship more prestigious.
- Make the Intercontinental Championship more prestigious.
- Bring back the King of the Ring.
- Change the look of the WWE Championship.
- Completely make the Tag Team division a whole lot better.
- Get rid of both General Manager's of the shows and get people along the lines of Shane McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Ric Flair, Paul Heyman, pick two to be General Manager's one for Raw the other for Smackdown.
- Make Raw it's own show again rather than be it a Supershow, the superstars from Smackdown aren't used probably Sheamus shouldn't have to team with Santino Marella.
- Get Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler back on the Raw Broadcast Team and you could also possibly have Cole there as I don't mind him too much and don't really see the need for him to be demoted to Smackdown, so this could happen as a 3 man team but this whole commentary rivalry thing would have to stop or else I wouldn't be able to bare it.
- Give Drew McIntyre a run with the United States/Intercontinental Championship.
- Make sure that Wade Barrett, Sheamus, Dolph Ziggler and Cody Rhodes all get World Title runs at some point this year.
- Fire Vickie Guerrero, she doesn't get heat like heels such as: Chris Jericho, Edge, Batista got she gets heat personally because she has one of the most annoying voices ever and she never shuts up, she has the stupidest catch-phrase in "Excuse Me" and she is worthless.
- Have Ric Flair return and manage one of the young guys much like he did with Randy Orton and Batista.
- Create a big Stable like we've had in the past with names like: NWO, Nexus, Evolution.
-Also make King of the Ring it's own PPV with both brands featuring on the show.
- Get out of the 'PG Era' and not necessarily go all Attitude Era on everybody because we've already seen this but start a new era, which actually not much but some blood in it, and the originally good Hell in a Cell Matches and Elimination Chamber Matches because personally I feel that definitely the Hell in a Cell Matches have been buried ever since 2009.

 

[HellWoo]

I'd have a full company wide evaluation of whether the people working in their current positions are worthy of being where they're at. I would, carefully, hire a team of writers/talent evaluators and work towards building programs 6 months down the road (I figure 6 months will be plenty of time to come up with good solid material for awhile). These people would be responsible for evaluating the talent to the most precise detail; knowing what your talent can and cannot do goes a long way in piecing good stories. Then, I would hire a group of scouts that would roam the World in search of the next big talent in the WWE. I have a feeling talent is there, but WWE is too lazy to go out and find these people. I feel that would cover a huge majority of the issues with the product.

With business in mind, I would take a good look into our numbers to see what works and what doesn't.

I know I made it sound easy, but it's actually very difficult to come up with all of that. The question was: What would YOU do as CEO of the WWE? The solution is simple, but the answer is very complicated.

 

[codebreaker1212]

fire teddy long
fire vickie guerrero
bring back jeff hardy
fire santino marella
get rid of nxt and televise fcw instead
fire hornswoggle
make edge[face] smackdown gm
put miz on commentary
bring back cruiserweight title
get rid of cheerleader divas
make christian[heel] raw gm
push hunico, drew mcintyre, ted dibiase, tyson kidd and justin gabriel.
and finally tell michael cole to take a long walk of a short cliff.

 

[MsDivaKnockouts]

If I was COO of The WWE

- Raw and Smackdown back to separate brands. (Raw SuperShow/ 3 hour Raw every once in a while.)

- Drop the jobbing superstars. (Santino, Heath Slater, Curt Hawkins, Mason Ryan, Ezekiel Jackson, etc.)

- Bring back Women's Championship for Smackdown. Bring back Women's Tag Team Titles.

- Longer Divas Matches. (At least 10 - 20 minutes each show)

- Build up mid-card performers. (Ted DiBiase, Justin Gabriel, Drew McIntyre, Jack Swagger etc.)

- Instead of bringing back the Cruiserweight Championship, Add a new championship, similar to the X-Division Championship for Raw. (For Superstars like: Ted DiBiase, Drew McIntyre, Justin Gabriel, Sin Cara, Zack Ryder, Hunico, etc.)

- Drop the U.S. Title, Keep the Intercontinental championship for Smackdown.

- Bring back Stephanie McMahon as a heel to take control of the Divas Division. (Similar to Karen Jarrett.)

- Hire back Melina, John Morrison, David Hart Smith, etc. (Good superstars and divas that can be used; DHS reforming Hart Dynasty w/ Tyson Kidd and Natalya. Have a storyline w/Bret Hart.)

- Build back up the Tag Team Division. (Its not good, but its not bad either. Keep AirBoom, Epico and Primo w/Rosa, Reform The Hart Dynasty, start some new Tag Teams.

- Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler only on Raw. Michael Cole, Booker T, and Josh Matthews only on Smackdown.

- Start building new Upper card talent. (i.e. Dolph Ziggler, Cody Rhodes.)

- Have one MITB match at WrestleMania for both brands. Drop MITB PPV.

- Drop Hell in a Cell PPV, Change Elimination Chamber to No Mercy.

- Keep Extreme Rules and TLC PPVs.

- Vince McMahon GM of Raw; Shane McMahon GM of Smackdown. Have them Feud over who has the show, then bring in Mick Foley to twist it up.

- No PG Era; but not Attitude Era either. Bring back minor blood, minor cursing. More intense matches/brutal matches. (Like let the superstars hit each other with objects, but not taking it to far.)

- Superstar/Diva Storylines. (Superstars attacking diva; i.e. The Great Khali attacking Ashley or Kane choking Trish Stratus. Superstar vs Diva Matches; i.e. Carlito vs Torrie Wilson or Trish Stratus vs Chris Jericho and Christian. Kidnapping storylines; i.e. Kane kidnapping Kelly Kelly or Undertaker kidnapping Stephanie McMahon.)

- Bring back King of The Ring with its own PPV. Qualifying matches happen in the weeks before the PPV and the Semi-Finals, and Finals happen at the PPV.

- Get rid of NXT, with the NXT superstars competing on WWE Superstars on WWE.com and televise FCW on Thursdays. Bring back Heat and Velocity. Televise those on Tuesday, Heat at 8pm, Velocity at 9pm.

- So, I think that it. Tell me what you think!

 

[KoC417]

i would boost the tag team / divas divison by hiring hardys back , 3d , and bring back LITA trish stratus victoria ( crazy gimmick) melina with johnny nitro and joey .

bring back blood . give alica fox diva belt. return of rvd. bring womans belt back. fire santino .bring back old ppvs. return of hbk. lita teams with hardys.hire maryse back.less michel cole segments. longer diva matches. put superstars back on tv. raw vs amackdown agian,

Bring back the drug addicts!? Yeah..NO
3D!? Dude they can only handle a TNA type schedule at this point. The damage their bodies have taken speaks for itself.
They tried to bring Trish back. She barely got a pop.
Bring back blood- That doesn't accomplish anything
Give Alicia Fox the belt!? Are you KIDDING me right now!?
RVD return ehh ok
Womens Championship? Uh if you have Diva's championship Women's championship isn't needed. Too few women to fight over 2 belts
Why fire Santino? He is pure gold
Old PPVs? Like what?
Return of HBK? Why? So the WWE can be paying for his rehab when his back fully breaks and his knees shatter?
So you want a reunion of Team Extreme? That would require WWE hiring back a hoe and 2 drug addicts. Not exactly a good image for the WWE.
LONGER DIVA'S MATCHES!? OK you are FIRED
Bring back superstars? Ehh That I could actually go for...if done correctly.
Raw vs. SmackDown!? No. Has been done way too much. Let the 2 brands stay split. Have 2 distinct shows. Raw/SmackDown! do not mesh unless it's fighting at Survivor Series or for certain storylines...


Here is what I would do.

SHUT WWE DOWN for a month to re-tool.
Hire a lot of international talent that people possibly haven't heard of. Bring in some up and coming stars.
Set up 5 developmental areas. Fund them very well too.
1 in Canada headed up by Lance Storm with Bret Hart being a consultant as well
1 in Japan Tajiri could head that one up along with maybe Dean Malenko as he has wrestled all over the world.
1 in England- William Regal would be a FANTASTIC trainer for the developmental system there
1 in the USA- JR could spear head this one as he has an eye for talent.
and 1 in Mexico.

With those 5 developmental areas WWE would always have the ability to train new talent and bring in new guys when the time came.

If we were going to reignite the Diva's division...
Resign:
Gail Kim (unlikely)
Trish Stratus (as a trainer)
Mickie James
wait for Kharma to come back
That Amazon woman
Beth Phoenix
Melina
Michelle McCool
Layla
Molly Holly (as a trainer/part time wrestler)
Ivory (trainer)
The Bella Twins
Eve Torres
Natalya
and scout international ladies to add in.

Have them be booked by the combination of Dustin Rhodes & Finlay. This would require a resigning of Finlay

Tag team Division revamp- This is where the developmental territories would be HUGE. Start up a British team, a team from Mexico/South America, Japan, Canada and other continents. At that point the WWE could have as many as 25 LEGITIMATE tag teams running thru their rosters at any given time. You could also send out your USA based tag teams to international waters and defend the tag gold. This opens up huge opportunities for tag team rivalries on DIFFERENT CONTINENTS.

SmackDown! gets the US title
Raw gets the Intercontinental title

The UK territory gets the European Championship

Women's Championship is defended in any territory and on any show.

SmackDown! keeps World Heavyweight Championship
Raw keeps WWE Championship

1 Unified Tag Team Championship defended on all shows and at any territory.

Keep Money in the Bank going- But not just for the World/WWE Championships. Give the US & IC title a Money in the Bank match too. With the winner getting to challenge for either. This opens up the chance for a superstar to jump from Raw to SmackDown! and vice versa.

I have thought for a while about these ideas. Yes it would cost the WWE some money being out for a month but that month they could literally change the shape of everything we have ever known about the WWE!

 

[dman1373]

fire the writing team including steph
write the show myself.
-hire paul heyman back cause hes not a fucking ******.
-Have a unification match for the world title. Have it be defended on each show.
-Change the brands back so that they only mingle going up to mania or if their is a fued between brands or gms.
-push john cena down to upper mid card and keep him out of the title picture for a while.
-Have 1 ppv per month.
-bring back saturday night main event for 2 weeks before any of the big four
-fire mason ryan and ezekial jackson, good they have no talent
-try my hardest to hire somoa joe
-hire someone that knows what the moves are call the matches. (god michael cole doesn't know any wrestling moves.)
-make triple h a manger of dolph zigler to get him where he needs to go
-higher an in house musician to redo alot of shitty songs for wrestlers(f.e. wade barrett, dolph ziggler)
-Have Vickie Guerrero be Daniel Bryan's manager(say what you will but she is a heat magnet, and the best manager in the world today.)
-Relegate elimination chamber, and hell in the cell back to their original names and have each match happen when necessarily. But Promote the crap out of it like their special and that they don't come around that often. Same thing with tlc.
-Have steel cage matches only 4 times a year. And only have it in the main event of raw or ppvs for big time matches.
-Start to build more unique wrestlers with different builds(not everyone has to fit in 3 different archetypes.)
-have the world title for only the top tier of wrestlers that means no swagger, no ziggler(how he is now), no daniel bryan(as he is now), no big zeke. It seems like anyone can be a world champion today and that devalues the belt alot. The reason why the title was so big back in the 80's and 90's was because alot of the best wrestlers couldn't win the title so defiently a guy that wasn't over couldn't get it(i m talking about swagger, i guy that doesn't have swagger.)
to be continued

 

[George Steele's Barber]

If I were CEO right now I would spend much of my time getting daily reports on the progress the the WWE Network. I would make it my main focus to make sure that the network gets off the ground running.

When I wasn't busy with the new network I would be focused on reviewing budgets, expenses and revenues. I would be talking to board members, other executives, VPs, Directors and consultants about different aspects of the overall health of the company and opportunities for growth and savings.

I would also spend time when available talking to other business leaders about possible opportunities to work together. I would be sure that my company was in good standing with different organizations across the globe so my company does not end up on watch-dog lists.

If I had the opportunity, I would meet with political leaders both domestically and globally about areas for growth for the company and improving society.

When I was done with that I would spend time with my family and friends spending the gobs of money that I am being paid to run a billion dollar company.

Oh, and if I still have time I would catch a couple of Raws that I had DVR'ed months ago and am finally just getting the time to hopefully enjoy.

 

[scsa316]

I would get rid of the WHC and the USC. Both are not needed and they make the whole show more shallow and take away the prestige of the WWE title and the IC title.

With the WHC, I feel like it has taken the place of the IC title, but to others it may not be that way, some people might consider it more prestigous than the WWE title. It has gotten rid of the "top guy" aspect of the company by adding confusion as to who the top guy really is, as well as diluted the IC division.

With a WWE title division of Miz, Cena, Del Rio, Orton, Big Show, Jericho, Kane, CM Punk, Christian, Henry, Sheamus & R-Truth I think there's more depth and allows for more dynamic and interesting matches. With the WHC we saw Big Show and Henry fight each other for months and now they're likely to be involved in the WHC match at RR, so that's another one with them in it and I'm sick of that.

Then we can have an IC division of Ziggler, Bryan, Rhodes, Barrett, Ryder, DiBiase, Kingston, Swagger, McIntyre which is also very deep. Ziggler is really close to the WWE title picture but IMO needs more time along with Barrett and Rhodes. I wouldn't push them too early look what happened with Swagger.

The tag division needs a boost also because it's become nothing more than a joke these days. I'd pair Zeke up with Mason "Batista" Ryan and create a powerhouse style team, keep Air Boom, the Uso's, Primo and Epico and even drop the load on Rey Mysterio and pair him up with Sin Cara. Another interesting team could be Ryder and DiBiase.

As for gimmick PPV's, I'd scrap all of them, I don't like how they ruin the surprise of specialty matches. The way it is now, we know we're getting HIAC matches on that PPV. Also the whole HIAC PPV is stupid IMO, you can't have multiple HIAC matches without blood it just ruins the whole dangerous match element which is what made it interesting in the first place.

To me a good rivalry settled in a HIAC match needs blood to make it dramatic and make the wrestlers seem like they've fought a war against each other. Without the roof battles and blood it's just like watching a normal no DQ wrestling match through a basketball court.

 

[Suibon]

If I were CEO I'd generally do what the inhuman barber would do. But life asks for specifications, and I shall give.

- Continue on rebuilding the tag team division; grab young promising tag teams from indy promotions if need be, and have promo segments and spin-off storylines involving feuding tag teams and/or tag teams and singles wrestlers.

- Jump-start on a systematic retooling of the Divas division... though I admit I don't know where to start. 'Hire moar female rasslers' seems to me an exercise in deliberate vagueness, so I won't go there.

- Scrap the specialty matches (TLC, HIAC, MITB, etc.) and have them return to the PPVs where they were first hosted - except HIAC. Without the blood, HIAC is just a glorified cage match.

- Install Edge as a face commentator as foil to Cole's heel.

-Seriously consider a Santino IC title run.

​

 

[CleverName51]

1) Company wide evaluations of things that are actually important like drawing power and merchandise selling. I don't care how good you are or how you look, you get fired if you don't make money.

2) If the market looks like it can hold it, experiment with a tag division. I wouldn't bring back any old teams though, you'd see new teams like Air Boom, Gabriel and Slater, some FCW guys. Most importantly though- not everyone would be pushed as a singles star, if someone shows potential, they might get a singles look, but career tag team guys would happen.

3) Separate Raw and SmackDown completely, in order to do that, first, there would be new on-screen GM's hired. (If they're up for it, Edge and HBK if not, Regal and HHH).

Also, bring back Managers* (more later for how this work)

The GM's would choose their rosters based on alternating picks. Each show would have

1: Main Event Single's Title
2: Mid card Singles Title
3: Women's Title (or Diva's Title)
4: Tag Titles

4) Wrestler Health and Wellness practical program-
In addition to the drug and steroid testing (which would get more strict, 1 monthly random test and 4 announces quarterly tests for a total of 16 tests per wrestler per year)

Each wrestler would only work a max of 100 shows a year. This is to help keep them healthy.

The company however
50 live weekly shows x 2 for Raw and Smackdown, 12 (but each brand would only have 11) PPVs (more later) and 48 house shows per brand (for 96 house shows total per year). (during big 4 PPV weeks there would be no house shows)

So for example:
if John Cena was on Raw- and he worked all 50 live Raw shows and all 11 of his brands PPVs, he could only work 38 house shows. This is again, to maintain health

Define work as being "AT" the show, for instance, if a wrestler is given time off to sell an injury, airing taped promos to hype the return don't count. It only counts as working a show if the superstar physically appears at the location of the show AND appears in front of the live audience in person.

There would be 2 non-live episodes: the Slammy Awards/best of the year in late December, and one summer special that would be more of a "behind the scenes" kind of documentary that would feature the draft. The Draft would would take place in late may, early June, (more later)

The weekly shows would have a Live Raw/Smackdown but Superstars and Sunday Night Heat would be taped as well for the weekends. During Big 4 (Mania, KOTR, SummerSlam, Survivor Series) PPV's, Superstars would be replaced by Saturday's Night Main Event and Heat would be a PPV lead in special.



5) PPV Calendar

Jan- Royal Rumble (both) Rumble match winner gets World Title Match at Mania, this match would ALWAYS go on last.
Feb- No Way Out (both)
Mar- WrestleMania (both, 4 hours)
April- Backlash (both)
May- Bragging Rights (both, head to head brand competition)-this would set up the draft order for the Draft Special, the night after
June-King of the Ring (both) Winner gets a World Title Shot for their brand at SummerSlam; KOTR card is just the tournament, and World Title Matches
July-Fully Loaded (Raw only) just a Raw only PPV to allow the SD stars some rest
August-SummerSlam (both)
September-Unforgiven (SD only) let the Raw guys rest, especially since football destroys ratings at this point anyway
October-Night of Champions (both) all the titles on the line, stipulations for the match are voted on by fans and voting stays legit, basically, in each title match, each competitor chooses what type of match they want, fans vote on those choices, for example

WHC Triple Threat Match, Christian vs Randy Orton vs Daniel Bryan

Christian wants a ladder match
Orton wants an elimination style triple threat
Bryan wants a submission match

that would be what the fans vote on. Each match could be planned easily, the winner wouldn't change...but fans can see the action

November- Survivor Series- see my post here for the format http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?p=3474220#post3474220

December- Armageddon (both) close out the year right, set up the next year

Each brand only has 11 PPVs




6) Announcing. Play by Play guy is neutral, tells the story, gives the facts, calls some moves, but doesn't over do it. (and a punch, and another punch, isn't needed, but "and a northern lights suplex is")
Color guy: neutral as well, but really sells the story of the match itself. "look at Del Rio working the arm of Sheamus, this is perfect for Del Rio because he can set up his cross arm breaker submission on a weakened arm, if he does Sheamus would need to tap out quick or get severely injured"

Most importantly: announcers would never bury talent. No calling Bryan a geek or any of that. If the announcers are telling the audience the talent is worthless, why should they watch?

7) lighten up a bit on the cursing...don't need the attitude era back, but for deep personal feuds, it would add the shock. The key is moderation, when someone says "I'm gonna beat his ass" it needs to mean something to sell the story

8) Consistent logical progression of storylines, duh.

9) Blood, no blading, ever. But if a guy gets busted just working, let it go. If blood is needed to add to a story-use the fake stuff, a guy can pop a blood capsule in his mouth, and spit blood, or pop the capsule in his hair to give the effect. Or, if it's a backstage brawl-just have a prop guy set it up like a movie.


10) Remember to push corporate partnerships to MAKE MONEY, obviously that's the most important thing. Making money.

 

[BuFF DaDDY]

I think many great points have been brought up above. keep up the fine work fellas. As someone that was born in 1980 I've seen my fair share and many great times in wrestling.

I think in order to comprehend what would be best for the show would be to take some of the best parts of all era's. With the new WWE network set to debut at some point of 2012 they do have a lot of options.

First & foremost the WWE needs to return certain titles to relevance such as the Tag Team titles, IC title, US title, Women's title, and restore cruiser weight & hardcore (wwe equivalent of TNA x division) divisions.

When WWE begins their network it would be amazing if they had their own X Division / ECW type show after hours similar the the old ECW. They could also have a show primary for women wrestling and expand on their women division. This would leave shows like Raw & Smackdown the proper time to feature the main event players and mid card performers on their way to the top.

The story telling of the mid card division is borderline appalling at times. They have enough talent where the talent doesn't have to be under utilized .

Overall the WWE seems short about 5-10 additional mid to top tier talent. If you take WWE current lineup and add in lets just say for argument sake guys like AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Matt Morgan, Crimson, Bautista, MVP, Robert Roode, James Storm, and Kurt Angle their shows would be a lot more fresh and less watered down (i.e. Randy Orton vs Christian in PPV main events for about 5 months straight).

Now I know the above paragraph is wishful thinking and not likely. It would also take a major financial commitment to attract such lucrative stars and further expand on the brand of the WWE. I think back to when WWE purchased WCW / ECW and during the early 2000's. I thought the product was almost around some of its best with a strong main card, mid card, low card, tag division card, and amount of wrestlers. This is what I would love to see again some sort of merger between WWE & TNA. Keeping in mind the new network and current low ratings and struggles of TNA is that hopefully Vince could work similar magic to take over the show.

Therefore one day on WWE network you could potentially have a show on every night featuring different things. For example a weekly lineup in this order could be - WWE Raw, TNA Impact, Womens Wednesday, Tag Team Thursday, Friday Night Smackdown, Hardcore Saturday Night, and Sunday's will be for Sunday morning programming / pay per views.

Moving onto other topics id like to see longer matches. I'd rather see 4-5 quality matches over 6-8 quick, fast, and useless matches. I'd also like to see WWE adapt some things that TNA have tried as I have faith in WWE creative possibly doing it better than TNA creative especially considering they have better personnel. Some things would be the TNA rankings they tried, something similar to Bound for Glory rankings as well, X Division, and having Wrestling matter.

These are a few things off the top of my head. Find the happy medium between the Attitude Era and what we have now and just provide further expansion in regards to additional talent and focusing more on wrestling and less on entertainment. The entertainment is a great plus to wrestling but it needs to be wrestling first and entertainment second.

Hope you enjoyed my first post on this forum!

 

[sharu7]

LOL at Individual PPVs....


They can hardly selling double branded PPVS, and your talking about Individual?

Do you really think people would want to see Mark Henry Vs Daniel Bryan as a PPV main event? Are you ******ed?

 

[TempestH]

- Unify the WWE and World Heavyweight Championships.

- Bring back the Cruiserweight Championship, but rather than making it a strictly undercard title, it would be available for everyone under the title's weight limit. This way, you can have guys like Miz, Ziggler, or Bryan win the Cruiserweight Title and make it mean something. Whenever these uppercard guys have the belt, it would explicitly be called the WORLD Cruiserweight Championship

- Rather than bring back the Hardcore Championship, bring in some kind of Extreme Championship, that focuses on gimmick matches rather than straight up weapon matches.

- Extend NXT to two hours and tape it as a seperate event. Move ALL of the NXT alumni to NXT; this would include the higher level guys like Wade Barrett, and Daniel Bryan, who would be carrying the brand. I would also take Hawkins, Reks, the Usos, and Baretta off of it (They were never NXT pros, so they have no business being on NXT). The NXT Superstars would all be cross brand.

- Extend Superstars to two hours and tape it as a separate event. Superstars would feature all of the midcard and lowcard talent, but be headlined by a single main event match.

- Cut down the house show schedule to every weekend. There will be an "off season" during which where there are no house shows.

- Revive the tag team division.

- Members of tag teams will occasionally receive singles pushes, but they will not be broken up with their partners to facilitate the push. It just means one member of a tag team will hold a singles title at times.

- Get rid of the Money in the Bank PPV, and make it part of TLC.

 

[FanFromSweden]

-Fire cena.I just had enough of him heel or face IMO he has to go.

-Turn orton heel.As a face hes just bland and boring.

-Revive the cruiserweight division.Fast,fun,exciting do i need to say more?.

-Depush sheamus/Turn heel same reason as orton.

-Hire some good talent for once.And with good talent i mean luchadores or technical wrestlers nuff monsters.

-Get rid off that bs NXT.Its.Just.horrible

-Turn Lawler heel.Tired of him kissing every faces ass all the time.

-Get rid off the spinner belt.Its flippin ugly.

-Turn punk heel and fire that bastard/s that turned him face.Better on the mick,pipebombs,more exciting ovr.

-Blood.Not necessary blood but i use that as an example wrestling would be more edgy and surprising again.Not to mention tables matches etc.

 

[SavageTaker]

What I see most people doing here is proposing changes they'd like so they could enjoy the product more, but the CEO of an entertainment company like WWE is supposed to make changes that the majority of their audience is supposed to like.

Would I like it if the divas were made more meaningful? Or if people were built up better? Or how about if the crappy comedy segments were cut out? Yes to all three and many more I won't bother to list. However, it seems like the majority of the audience likes what they currently see and it's making the company millions and millions of dollars, so why change something that isn't broken? Don't I, as the CEO of a company, want to fill my pockets with money? Probably. So why take a huge risk by changing something that might backfire and end up making you lose money?

I think we just have to remember that the WWE are in the money making business, which they've succeeded tremendously at doing. So as long as they keep doing that, the changes I'd make are probably really small ones that wouldn't adversely alter the amount of money I make. Now, if we started talking about making changes from the point of view of a fan, I'd be telling you a whole different story.

 

[Y2J1245]

I would:
-Remove double belts. We don't need a set of Champions on each show, when they are cross promoted.
-Go back to treating the Shows like Rivals.
-Have rotating Champions between the shows like they used to have.
-Have one group that thought they reigned supreme, ala The Kliq, that wouldn't stay on one show. They'd go were they pleased because they think they're amazing
-Bring back Paul Heyman. I loved when King left with Kat and he filled in. King Now + Heyman would sound awesome, plus he'd bring a larger variety of experience
-Make better stables so that younger guys can succeed through association, and so they can wrestle repping the group instead of each guy doing his own thing.
-Make longer matches. I hate watching a 4 minute match that had 5 minutes of intros. 10 Mins or nothing.
-Less PPV's or alternating months. The storylines are short, and weak. Ending them every couple weeks doesn't build strong fueds.