Idea for a 3rd brand for WWE

[The_RB_Brand]

Raw is a mix of breaking out stars & big name superstars W/ interesting story lines & lots of drama. Smackdown seems to be bit of a mix of well known house names not given the extra boost they need mixed w/ a bunch of mid card wrestlers & some new talent as well. I say WWE should consider in on a 3rd brand of wrestling. Pretty much the FCW league of WWE programming. Have maybe 2 or 4 big house names to help promote the brand / get the new guys over n up when they are ready. The question is what would the show be named if this idea was given a chance? What night would u prefer to watch such a show like this? Should there be titles? Maybe a certain concept that differs it from WWE's 2 flagship brands?

I know this is a touch topic seeing as WWE has a big history at failure on TV when trying to recreate a new brand. look what they did to ECW, look where NXT went (even though it wasn't a brand show). Even look at superstars, it's seeing it's days pretty soon. How ever from past experience combined w/ creative potential, what do you think?

- RB

 

[Troy]

I personally don't think that WWE have enough top line talent to carry three brands. They can just about cover the two current brands with big stars and for now I think that two televised brands would be enough.

I do think that WWE should create a brand that bridges the gap between television and developmental. For now call them Brand3 to keep it simple. What that would be is a mixture of new talents that are nearing being promoted to the main roster, regular talents who are switching gimmicks and some veterans who are nearing the end. Then they would only run house shows, no television, and they could run smaller arenas then RAW and Smackdown currently run. This would allow fans in smaller areas to see the WWE experience but it would be a bit cheaper since it doesn't have all the big names. I think that it would be a good use of the WWE name and would be a good way to use some talents who aren't being used frequently on tv.

 

[Keith]

Excatly Smackdown is already struggling against Raw, a third brand is likely to be even further behind the two of them. It is an unpoplar opion on here, but I think it is time for Vince to cut his loses on the brand extension, cut the company down to just one brand (likely Raw as that is the flagship broadcast).

This would mean cutting down the number of titles (Including just one world title), and placing more importance on shows like Superstars to really build up, mid carders, and feature main eventers when required and serve as a magazine type show, like it used to be.

 

[The_RB_Brand]

If they took away smackdown & kept RAW, Raw should be a 3 hour event & Superstars being a 2 hour event Then maybe bring back NXT / Tough Enough as their side shows for over the weekend. Raw being the brand for big name stars & breaking out stars & superstars being a clash of high end mid card stars & young fresh talent from places such as NXT & FCW. Although superstars won't have titles, they could still have good story lines & drama to keep the point of interest. That would be my opion if WWE was to go in that direction. Another thing I would do is save the PPV promo crap for a WWE weekly review show instead of placeing PPV / weekly review coverage crammed into what is suppose to be 2 hours of wrestling & entertainment

 

[Keith]

Well back in the day you did have the big names appearing on Superstars, so you could have like most the matches been between mid-carders, and then just have a a-level main event, or maybe sometimes have a rookie face one of the big guns in the main event. Another idea would be to just have the current World champion appear in a interview segment, to hype up his current feud or foruth coming PPV match.

Not sure about making Superstars two hours through, I think if you did it how they did it in the 90's that is put more focus on the wrestling, and have an special interview in the middle, with maybe a WWE Magazine up date here and there, then you can still get four matches at least in an hour, and quite bit more.