Polite reminder that any given talent is never responsible for a decline in the product/ratings. Its the lazy writing and piss poor booking that are to blame. If the product is shit overall, people tune out.
>>1383904
Not entirely true.
You could have the best writers and bookers in the world but if the talent are botching retards with no mic skills and look like shit it's still going to fail.
Polite reminder that the current downswing in ratings directly coincides with the beginning of Reigns's main event push.
Polite reminder that last year's RAWafterMania was the highest-rated episode in almost FIVE years.
Polite reminder that this year's didn't even outdraw the post-Royal Rumble show.
>Romarks BTFO
>>1383907
Yes but the problem WWE has is the opposite. They have great in ring talent and a handfull of excellent talkers. But the creative team either doesnt know how to book a wrestling show ir refuses to put effort into it.
Ramen is a perfect example.
Vince has pushed him harder than even Diesel or Lex Luger. And on his best day he gets mild cheers overshadowed by BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
There were a dozen other ways to build him up that could have made him number 1 to marks and smarks alike. But creative just said fuck it, lets make Cena 2.0 and turbo ram him down the fans' throats.
Instead of playing to his strengths, they put his weaknesses under a magnifying glass.
>>1383908
You are the same guy posting everywhere the same shit. The roster is all shit, the writing is all shit, the production itself is bad, same repetitive matches, no one in the roster has it. Not even smarks will continue to watch this crap.
>>1383939
And you're the same guy whining in every thread like a nostalgia fuck YouTube commentator.
>>1383904
Roman Reigns is complete shite and has been an abysmal failure on all fronts
>>1383934
>But the creative team either doesnt know how to book a wrestling show ir refuses to put effort into it.
About the talking thing.
I find it a bit shit that wrestlers need to cut a promo word for word. It doesn't give creative freedom. It ruins potential gold that people want to watch. It makes everything look schematic to shit, and it hurts the newcomers who could try developing their gimmicks themselves, not relying on creative which is proven to be shit about 90% of the time.
Reminder that a wrestler's "look" doesn't matter because people watch wrestling for the matches, supported by storylines and promos, neither of which require a good "look" to provide entertainment.
Stone Cold is the biggest draw of all time and he didn't pack stadiums and pull the biggest ratings ever because he was a 7 foot tall roidmonkey.
The primary function of a wrestler's physique should be to help their body take bumps and provide them with the strength to perform their moves.
>>1383982
Tell that to Vince and his vocal minority of cock gobbling anti-smarks.
>>1383904
>Polite reminder that any given talent is never responsible for a decline in the product/ratings. Its the lazy writing and piss poor booking that are to blame. If the product is shit overall, people tune out.
Disagree.
You're right about a lot of the time, but sometimes, the top guy is just not up to it. Diesel, HBK, Reigns being the obvious examples.
Other times, the "talent" is acting as the creatives (Nash, Hogan, HHH), and they are able to fuck things up that way too.
>>1383982
>Stone Cold didn't have 'the look'
Holy shit what the fuck am I reading
>>1383904
I agree with you mostly, but the writers can't give Ramen a personality. The guy is just boring.
