New WWE Gimmick PPVs

[noumenon]

WWE's 2009 financial results revealed a sharp decline in the 2009 Survivor Series PPV buyrate (down 26% from 2008) while the company's new gimmick-themed events (Hell in a Cell, Bragging Rights, TLC) all did better than their 2008 counterparts.

Vince McMahon stated during this morning's WWE conference call that the WWE Survivor Series title is "obsolete" and has "outlasted its usage." He said WWE does not intend on using the name moving forward. As a result, it appears WWE is considering more gimick-themed PPVs, including several concepts used back in WCW.

In a survey sent out to the WWE Universe this morning, WWE asks fans what their level of interest is in the following potential PPV event themes:

Tournament Event: Single elimination "bracket style" tournament where Superstars would compete in multiple matches during the night to become the tournament winner.

Street Fight Event: Main events would include"street fight" matches where there are no disqualifications and pin-falls count anywhere. Superstars often compete in normal street clothes.

Legends Event: Match participants would include WWE Legends from the past.

Money in the Bank Event: The main event "Money in the Bank" match requires Superstars to climb a ladder and retrieve a briefcase hung high above the ring. The winner can "cash in" the briefcase for a championship title shot throughout the year. Qualifying matches earlier in the event will determine participants for the "Money in the Bank" match.

WWE Draft Event: WWE's annual Draft where Superstars and Divas learn which brand they'll be a part of for the next year. The Draft is often the beginning of new conflicts and matchups.

Battle Bowl Event: Random tag-teams compete together - sometimes arch rivals - with the winning teams being put in a 2-ring Battle Royal. The winner could potentially receive a championship title match.

Roulette Event: Main event match stipulations would be determined by the spin of a roulette-type wheel.

War Games Event: Teams of 5 collide in 2 cages. 2 participants begin the match with a new participant added every 5 minutes. This process is alternated between teams until all members from both teams are present.)


Some don't sound too bad. Hell... may as well make the PPV's something special. Just so long as they don't continue to run awesome concepts like HIAC and others into the ground.

 

[-TJ-]

The first one is KOTR.

They want a WM stable as a ppv.

To be honest... War Games should be choosen.

 

[Klide]

Id like to see war games. Very Curious on how there gonna pull out Legends.

 

[noumenon]

They'll just air an episode of TNA

 

[Nation]

I doubt they would drop the MITB from Mania. None of these gimmick match themes will draw better then Survivor Series. If somehow it does in the long term it will die out. Getting rid of Survivor Series is a very Blue decision. Unless they actually do move MITB.

 

[Klide]

I doubt they would drop the MITB from Mania. None of these gimmick match themes will draw better then Survivor Series. If somehow it does in the long term it will die out. Getting rid of Survivor Series is a very Blue decision. Unless they actually do move MITB.

Very True. Survior Series has been with WWE so long its like taking away Mania........Not really but its like taking away summer slam. I read that Breaking point had bad buy rates so why not replace that?

 

[Kaedon]

BATTLE BOWL!? WAR GAMES!?? I just came in my pants....

 

[Great One]

Some of those sound pretty cool, War Games is the one that sticks out though (and the one that has been rumored). War Games becoming synonymous with a Survivor Series PPV would be amazing. The first is just KOTR which is stupidly underwhelming, same with the Street Fight which is just Extreme Rules... dumb. Legends, stupid. MITB, wow, if they were actually willing to move it to SS that could be interesting, right before the Rumble though. Could make the Rumble seem less significant. Don't see how a Draft event really has anything to do with the matches, this seems rather pointless, however it IS at the end of the year, but again, having it before the Rumble would seem sorta dumb. Battle Bowl event sounds like a decent idea, but would really be going along a similar theme of Survivor Series, which I'm sure Vince doesn't want to do. Roulette event sounded cool at first, then I realized that it would probably turn out very badly.

 

[NinoBrown]

War Games. That is all.

 

[straight_edge76]

War Games. End of story. But a KOR revival would be pretty epic imo.

 

[noumenon]

Ugh @ KOTR... last thing we need is more people running around with ridiculous fucking King gimmicks. If anything it should be used as a tournament for the younger stars to reach a mid card title to put some more importance on them.

 

[xtremebadass]

Survivor Series was one of the big four. How could they drop it? That is like dropping Summerslam.

A MITB would be interesting, but the main event would be the MITB ladder match right? They couldn't have more than one unless they have a contract for every belt, but that would get old real fast.

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

Battle Bowl and muthafuckin War Games!!! Then the legends, then the tourney idea. Fuck the street fight shit, that's just another extreme rules rip off, and who really wants another ladder match ppv when there's already a fuggin TLC ppv. They might as well add a ppv called Steel Cage to coincide with Hell in a Cell and Elimination Chamber, but then that negates War Games...but its two rings! So that makes it different, right?

 

[THE Renegade Diesel]

Whats up with everyone wanting to be the modern day WCW?

Draft & The KOTR to return & Wargames > everyothergimmick.

Keep Survivor Series, add Wargames to Summerslam would be fucking dope.

MITB should be kept in WM, and the legends thing is ehh. Roulette is just wack. Save that for RAW.

 

[xtremebadass]

I am pretty sure every year at WWE Legends it would consist of matches with Piper, Dusty Rhodes, Cowboy Bob and the highly anticipated return of Rick Steamy.

Definitely not the Rock's and Austin's everyone would be hoping for.