Monthly Pay-Per-Views.

[Greg4WWE]

Well I guess I should say, monthly Sunday Night wrestling events since we get most if not all of them on WWE Network and they are typically matches we have seen 100X, but I digress.

Are the monthly events necessary? Just seems it is always some guy in the ring, another guy comes out and talks trash and 2-3 weeks later they are facing in the event with no real story behind them. What I am asking is, do you guys think there are too many of these events? No real time to make feuds personal. They are quick to set up and some end right after 1 event, sometimes it drags out to 2 or 3. I would much rather keep major ones. Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam, and Survivor Series. And build legit personal feuds to these. I guess now that these events are essentially free (only $9.99) on WWE Network there is no harm in them, but when they were 50 bucks on pay per view it was just too much. It would just be nice to have serious deep rooted feuds that built up. Like the old days in the 80s and early 90s when Wrestlemania feuds started months before.

Thoughts?

 

[jpickens]

They need to as mentioned before cut back to only the big four and possibly bring back King of the Ring the rest like Money in the Bank can shown on either USA or the network.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

Having monthly ppv events is really the bread and butter of the WWE Network. As a result, monthly ppvs aren't going anywhere anytime soon, or probably even in the remote future for that matter. It's not as big of a deal to many people these days because of the WWE Network because it's only $10 a month.

With that being said, I think the brand split does hold possibilities that can allow for more time to flesh out storylines and build up. Personally, I wouldn't mind if WWE went the route of each brand having 4 ppv events each with the Big Four of the Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Survivor Series being joint branded. With each brand having 4 ppvs, there are times during the year in which there'd be an additional month of building up ppv events.

 

[enviousdominous]

A PPV every month almost guarantees that a few matches won't be conclusive. Some feuds are gold and shouldn't be ended right away, but PPVs from back in the day were supposed to be the answer to all the hype that had been built up.

I'm sure that the WWE can make this work for their bottom line, and I don't expect them to be all that concerned with my standards for quality when they're too busy counting all the money they're making off of a generation that I really don't relate to.

WCW went the route of doing monthly PPVs to screw with the WWE, and look where that got them. The difference being that -- while the WWE has screwed up from time to time -- the WWE has shown that they can improve upon so-so ideas from WCW's heyday.

 

[Psykohurricane55]

let face it, to say that they are monthly ppv is not really accurate right now because since most of them are WWE network exclusive, they are more network special then PPV. Having said that, i understand why they want to go that route because they really need content on the network and since they don'T want to use their library to fill that schedule, they need new wrestling content every other week now.

I kinda take those monthly special as saturday night's main event type show. Back in the day, they use to have a special saturday night main event every month and later on every 2 months we'Re they had big matches that would advance the storyline along so that when the big ppv happens, you could either end the feud or add some big element to it. That what those special like backlash and clash of champions are, they are pretty much a show to fill time on the network and advance storyline so that you can have the big payoff at one of the big four event.

 

[Deoxyribonucleic A.C.I.D.]

If we were in the PPV era, with 30-40$ for each PPV, then yeah, they shouldn't exist if they weren't going to be top notch quality. But now, you get two PPVs for 11$ per month. WWE gets to sell out double arenas, fans get it watch it cheap and the cards are not that bad. Backlash I think has a very solid card and the cards will keep getting better with time, given the rise of Owens', Rollins', Reigns' popularity and the coming of talents like Nakamura, Aries, Roode and Joe.

I wouldn't be surprised that with all that talent around, WWE will bring back that Saturaday Night Main Event special before the big cross brand PPVs, in order to get all their talent to work a PPV during the weekend.

 

[Navi]

I think I might be confused here. Are we going to have each brand have a PPV each month, with the exception of Mania, Rumble, Summerslam or SS? Or is each brand going to trade off PPV's?

For example - January will be the Royal Rumble with both brands, February - RAW, March - SD, April - Mania (both brands), May-RAW, June-SD, July-Summerslam, August-RAW, September-SD, October-RAW, November-Survivor Series, Decmber-SD.

That would give each show 4 brand exclusive PPV's a year, with the big four in the mix. So we would still get a monthly PPV, but it would depend of which show's turn it is.

The one thing that does worry me though is this. With the roster's now being cut in half, are they going to be able to make each PPV count? Also does anyone see any crossover when it does come to the big four?