If RAW appealed to adults...

[Pop Tatari]

Reason wwe is aimed at kids as adults will bring however many children they have and will buy them t shirts,posters etc.kids always want something.

 

[Dat Kid1]

I agree with Perfect on the children being the one's to be more inclined to buy the merchandise and ask for the PPV's and then you also have the advertisers who open up more to WWE because of it's good image. However i think they could have gotten good advertisers either way because they're not advertising Dove soap for women or Slip N' Slides. Th majority of the advertisements are geared towards men with things like 5 hour energy and autozone. I think the PG image is mainly being a part of a publicly traded company so they have to do what the investors want at time and I don't think no investor wants to say "I own stock in a company that makes women bark like dogs", they'd rathe say "I won stock in the company that promotes anti-bullying". Not only that, but WWE is starting to venture out into things like movies, so being a filmmaker I know that you need financiers to back these projects and they will be biased based on the people running the movie, so the better the image the higher chance of getting the backer. I'm sure there's other avenues that this applies to as well.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Kids will still watch a wrestling show aimed towards adults. Maybe not quite in the same numbers, but they will. WCW you always saw kids with NWO shirts on (I had one). During the AE all we did on the playground was discuss this weeks Raw or the upcoming PPV.

That's my take. Kids love wrestling. You may lose some kids because of strict parents, but you more than make up for that with interested viewers aged 16-40.

 

[Danielson]

You obviously do not have kids. Do you how all that John Cena crap sells to kids? Just like the Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa want to go to Duff Gardens. They pressure and pressure until they get their way. Trust me, it's hard to keep saying no after a while. @Danielson can you back me up on this one?

As for the advertisers, yes, there are plenty willing to advertise for edgier shows, but the ones who have the most money to pay you want family entertainment. You really think McDonalds (who has a shit load of money to spend on advertising) would put their spots during a show with an act of necrophilia in this day and age?

My son skyler 100% likes John Cena the most.

 

[Lockard 23]

We've already seen the wrestling version of crash TV back in the Attitude Era (mainly 1999), so I'm not interested in seeing it again if that's what you mean by a more adult-oriented product. If you mean just the inclusion of blood and cursing or whatever, those things aren't even completely missing. They're already TV-14 on PPV. The corporate section of their website even says that they're TV-14 in the last hour or Raw. (They were PG on Smackdown back in the day...) PG isn't the problem, just appealing mainly to kids is. Kids will still watch a product that is more geared towards adults, because I and several others did during the AE. Hell, WCW, with their awesome NWO angle (which was more geared towards adults than kids) was technically a PG show.

I'm sure they'll go back to TV-14 eventually one day, though. Maybe within the next 2-3 years.