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I watched wrestling for years as a kid and off and on until I started having kids... I tune in now and then just to see what is happening. There are too many matches each week with the same wrestlers involved. Everything leads up to the next PPV and I get why they do it, but there's a lot of younger talent that is being ignored.
How many segments can they really burn with Cena, Orton and the other 'names' running their mouths before it gets old in one show?
I think the WWE has spread itself too thin with so much programming and the multiple 'brands'. I can't imagine there are too many people that watch each of the shows, sure they exist... but, that would have been more than I cared to handle back when I was a fan.
Raw, ECW (which really is the furthest thing from what it truly was) and Smackdown... those are the 3 'premium' brands with stars scattered across them. I think it's a failed bit and with no competition, why would they change.
If TNA can take this momentum and ride it hard against RAW, then you will see a mind shift in how they approach the brands. TNA has the one show, so focus all their 'names' and 'faces' hard and heavy early and often, sprinkling in the new guys. Then, over the course of 6 months, you begin to truly develop the younger wrestlers and you'll steal more away.
They have many lessons learned from the death of WCW, hopefully their egos won't allow them to make the same mistakes twice. It's funny to see the Nasty Boys, Scott Hall, etc back, but c'mon... they were done 10 years ago. They don't even try most of the time.
It will be interesting to see what happens, but you have as many big egos at TNA now as they have in WWE... there's no guarantee they'll do things right. But, their timing is great right now.
I became a WWE fan in the 80s when the other federations were swallowed up... I became a WCW fan in the 90s. There's a need for a strong #2 and TNA is in a hell of a position right now, hopefully they'll do things right.
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