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Ok, I'll just get right into it and answer anyone's questions later. This'll be pretty long, so bear with me.
First, retire the WWE Women's Title. No, I'm not sexist whatsoever. Yes, some of the women have great talent. Unfortunately, they seem to be expolited as "tits & ass" anyway and most of their segments are ridiculous and slow down the show. Let them be valets, ring announcers, interviewers, etc. Just some sort of on-air personality (as well as their out-of-the-ring "modeling") and never, or very rarely, stepping into the ring. To replace this belt, move the ECW Championship to Monday Night Raw. It would serve as a glorified "Hardcore Title" minus the 24/7 rule. All hardcore matches within the Raw brand would be called "Extreme Rules". Likewise, all hardcore matches within the Friday Night SmackDown brand would be called simply "Hardcore". No real difference, it's just to make it sound special. So, the title picture would look like this:
Monday Night Raw:
WWE Championship
WWE Intercontinental Title
ECW Championship
World Tag Team Titles
Friday Night SmackDown:
World Heavyweight Championship
WWE United States Title
WWE Cruiserweight Title
WWE Tag Team Titles
This means, of course, killing off ECW on Sci-Fi. Anyone who wants out, let them out. No harm, no foul, release them. Anyone who wants to stay, disperse them between Raw and SmackDown to even out the number of Superstars per roster as balanced as possible. Split everyone behind-the-scenes up between Raw and SmackDown as well, making cuts where nessacary. There's four referees, so send two to each other show. The members of the roster who don't compete will have to find some on-air role, I assume. Other than the title on Raw, no trace of ECW will be left in the current WWE.
Now, each brand has five exclusive PPV events and they both share five PPV events. Here's how it would look:
Monday Night Raw:
January - New Year's Revolution
April - Backlash
June - Bad Blood
July - Vengeance
September - Unforgiven
Friday Night SmackDown:
February - No Way Out
May - Judgment Day
June - One Night Stand
October - No Mercy
December - Armageddon
Neutral:
January - Royal Rumble
March/April - WrestleMania
August - SummerSlam
October/November - Cyber Sunday
November - Survivor Series
Once or twice a year, they hold a Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC. It should be a PPV-quality show for two hours and neutral between the brands. Those one or two occasions, plus the five aforemetioned pay-per-views (6-7 times per year), Raw and SmackDown cross-promote. "Raw vs. SmackDown" matches, but never cross-title defenses. Maybe some preliminary "invasions" to further the storylines as well. Otherwise, Raw and SmackDown stay 100% SEPERATE. Even tour schedules, never even in the same city at the same time.
Furthermore, the developmental territories should be exclusive. DSW: Deep South Wrestling is Raw's exclusive "breeding ground" and OVW: Ohio Valley Wrestling is SmackDown's exclusive "breeding ground". Adjust their rosters to accomodate this.
HEaT is taped before Raw, Velocity is taped before SmackDown, and both are webcasted online at raw.wwe.com and smackdown.wwe.com, respectively. A new HEaT each Sunday and a new Velocity each Saturday. This should make sure that WWE offers only 4 regular hours of televised programming a week (the USA Network and the CW Network) with all other shows entirely cancelled. Raw would still feature the "SmackDown Lowdown" and SmackDown would still feature the "Raw Rebound", in case you missed the highlights.
Then, make any cost-reducing cuts needed, and you're all set! This even 50/50 split of everything would make organization and business much easier and give more emphasis on the brand extension. Also, the 6 or 7 cross-promotions would seem more special and push the "Civil War within WWE, between Raw and SmackDown" angle, as it would promote Raw and SmackDown as being each other's only recognized competiton.
Any thoughts?
First, retire the WWE Women's Title. No, I'm not sexist whatsoever. Yes, some of the women have great talent. Unfortunately, they seem to be expolited as "tits & ass" anyway and most of their segments are ridiculous and slow down the show. Let them be valets, ring announcers, interviewers, etc. Just some sort of on-air personality (as well as their out-of-the-ring "modeling") and never, or very rarely, stepping into the ring. To replace this belt, move the ECW Championship to Monday Night Raw. It would serve as a glorified "Hardcore Title" minus the 24/7 rule. All hardcore matches within the Raw brand would be called "Extreme Rules". Likewise, all hardcore matches within the Friday Night SmackDown brand would be called simply "Hardcore". No real difference, it's just to make it sound special. So, the title picture would look like this:
Monday Night Raw:
WWE Championship
WWE Intercontinental Title
ECW Championship
World Tag Team Titles
Friday Night SmackDown:
World Heavyweight Championship
WWE United States Title
WWE Cruiserweight Title
WWE Tag Team Titles
This means, of course, killing off ECW on Sci-Fi. Anyone who wants out, let them out. No harm, no foul, release them. Anyone who wants to stay, disperse them between Raw and SmackDown to even out the number of Superstars per roster as balanced as possible. Split everyone behind-the-scenes up between Raw and SmackDown as well, making cuts where nessacary. There's four referees, so send two to each other show. The members of the roster who don't compete will have to find some on-air role, I assume. Other than the title on Raw, no trace of ECW will be left in the current WWE.
Now, each brand has five exclusive PPV events and they both share five PPV events. Here's how it would look:
Monday Night Raw:
January - New Year's Revolution
April - Backlash
June - Bad Blood
July - Vengeance
September - Unforgiven
Friday Night SmackDown:
February - No Way Out
May - Judgment Day
June - One Night Stand
October - No Mercy
December - Armageddon
Neutral:
January - Royal Rumble
March/April - WrestleMania
August - SummerSlam
October/November - Cyber Sunday
November - Survivor Series
Once or twice a year, they hold a Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC. It should be a PPV-quality show for two hours and neutral between the brands. Those one or two occasions, plus the five aforemetioned pay-per-views (6-7 times per year), Raw and SmackDown cross-promote. "Raw vs. SmackDown" matches, but never cross-title defenses. Maybe some preliminary "invasions" to further the storylines as well. Otherwise, Raw and SmackDown stay 100% SEPERATE. Even tour schedules, never even in the same city at the same time.
Furthermore, the developmental territories should be exclusive. DSW: Deep South Wrestling is Raw's exclusive "breeding ground" and OVW: Ohio Valley Wrestling is SmackDown's exclusive "breeding ground". Adjust their rosters to accomodate this.
HEaT is taped before Raw, Velocity is taped before SmackDown, and both are webcasted online at raw.wwe.com and smackdown.wwe.com, respectively. A new HEaT each Sunday and a new Velocity each Saturday. This should make sure that WWE offers only 4 regular hours of televised programming a week (the USA Network and the CW Network) with all other shows entirely cancelled. Raw would still feature the "SmackDown Lowdown" and SmackDown would still feature the "Raw Rebound", in case you missed the highlights.
Then, make any cost-reducing cuts needed, and you're all set! This even 50/50 split of everything would make organization and business much easier and give more emphasis on the brand extension. Also, the 6 or 7 cross-promotions would seem more special and push the "Civil War within WWE, between Raw and SmackDown" angle, as it would promote Raw and SmackDown as being each other's only recognized competiton.
Any thoughts?