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  1. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    Doesn’t matter if he was champion for a month, his November 99-January 2000 runs shows they shouldn’t have made him champion, especially after being in the mid card for the last 3 years. And no, working with Kurt Angle one of the biggest draws of the attitude era wasn’t going to magically make...
  2. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    It certainly had more story and character than today, but it had a 3rd of the characters and stories than prior to when he took over. He led the way to less story and character. It was a workrate show and Smackdown improved for the first time since the attitude era after Heyman
  3. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    No one is going to agree with everyone about everything, but I do agree with most of your opinions, specifically the WCW post you made, I hope you make a thread on WCW going out of business.
  4. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    Smackdown lost viewers, and were about to get cancelled. It was garbage compared to Smackdown from August 1999-March 2002 Heyman made it a work rate show, took away character and promo work, had Big Show as champion, had the Heyman Character betray Lesnar for Show nonsensically, while keeping...
  5. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    Exactly, UFC is more popular. He was using the lame roody pop UFC shows as proof that nothing draws, when UFC main cards refute that and prove its popular. Wrestling isn’t popular and has fanatics left.
  6. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    He’s using roody poo UFC shows as proof that WWE is successful, then claiming that Cable ratings is obsolete. Which is refuted by the fact that if that were the case youtube numbers would be 100x higher. WWE is niche.
  7. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    No one cares about UFC prelims. WWE and professional wrestling undoubtedly, doesn’t draw even moderately. They should be getting 5-10 million views for Each video on YouTube and if this was a boom period, having videos get 20-30 million regularly
  8. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    WWE is a mainly Live TV brand. But let’s pretend to be in your fantasy world where it doesn’t matter to WWE.... Still doesn’t draw on the Internet. Youtube viewership would be having each video getting 5-10 million viewers. Intstead they get a max of 3 million , where most videos get...
  9. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    You decline to debate, it stands, Russo increased ratings in every single tenure in every single company he was in.
  10. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    Russo is the single highest drawing writing in professional wrestling. The numbers are concrete and there is nothing you can do about it. Based on numbers prior to 2018, based on past success and past eras. Once that runs out they’re not getting again. Proof? And Bruce Prichard’s claims...
  11. RLStern

    Main Criminals of WWE’s Decline

    Every since the initial brand split/“extension” of 2002 the WWF/WWE had had a near 20 year decline(many will say after WM 17 when Rock left but that’s revisionist history, ratings went back and numbers were in the normal boom period range when Rock was there in 2001 and early 2002.) Here are...
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