Shake Ups Planned for WWE

[JTG]

It sounds like a draft.

- Snitsky and Super Crazy to ECW.

- CM Punk, John Morrison, MVP, and Rey Mysterio to RAW.

- Ken Kennedy, Randy Orton, Santino Marella, and Umaga to SmackDown.

ECW: Big Daddy V, Chavo Guerrero, Colin Delaney, Elijah Burke, Kane, Kofi Kingston, Mike Knox, Nunzio, Shelton Benjamin, Snitsky, Stevie Richards, Super Crazy, The Boogeyman, The Miz, Tommy Dreamer

RAW: Carlito, Chris Jericho, CM Punk, Jeff Hardy, JBL, John Cena, Johnny Nitro (Morrison repackaged with Melina), MVP, Rey Mysterio, Shawn Michaels, Triple-H

SmackDown: Batista, Edge, Fit Finley, Ken Kennedy, Mark Henry, Matt Hardy, Randy Orton, Santino Marella, The Big Show, The Great Khali, The Undertaker, Umaga

ECW gets Snitsky and Crazy and loses Punk and Morrison. Seems unfair, but with a one hour show and the 15 superstars above, they could do just fine.

RAW gets Punk, Morrison, MVP, and Mysterio and loses Kennedy, Orton, Marella, and Umaga. Punk and Mysterio come in as faces in the mid-card, easily making up for the loss of Kennedy, not to mention Punk has Money In The Bank and Mysterio has been on SmackDown! since 2002. Morrison returns to RAW as Nitro, and both he and MVP are more than enough to make up for the losses of Marella and Umaga as heels in the mid-card, while Jericho could turn heel to replace Orton in the main event.

SmackDown! gets Kennedy, Orton, Marella, and Umaga and loses MVP and Mysterio. Kennedy returns to SmackDown! as a face to replace Mysterio. Orton gives SmackDown! a much needed second heel main eventer along with Edge. Marella and Umaga easily make up for the loss of MVP as heels in the mid-card, not to mention Umaga has been on RAW for a couple of years now.

Comparing RAW and SmackDown, both have two heels (Jericho/JBL and Edge/Orton) and three faces (Cena/Michaels/HHH and Batista/Show/Undertaker) in the main event and three heels (Carlito/Nitro/MVP and Henry/Marella/Khali or Umaga) and three faces (Punk/Jeff/Mysterio and
Finley/Kennedy/Matt) in the mid-card.

Looks pretty even to me, as long as it’s made clear that all rosters are locked immediately following the draft to prevent a superstar from appearing on or moving to another show unless a trade is made between two General Managers. This all leads up to SummerSlam being headlined by Cena/HHH for the WWE title, Undertaker/Umaga for the World title, Jericho/Hardy for the IC title, and Batista/Orton.

A few minor changes as well:

- Release Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

- Give Jeff Hardy his old theme music back.

- Repackage Paul Burchill as a pirate again and remove Katie Lea from RAW.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

idc what they do as long as Undertake does not get moved...until maybe after Aug...

I am not gonna get cheated out of seeing him..I would be mad at WWE yet again...always when they come here the main person I wanna see gets moved or something...hell the last time it was Benoit and well you all know what happen...one time before that was Kurt Angle...so yea...once when he went from Raw to SD....and if Taker gets moved I will piss a brick..but anyone else I really could care less about getting moved.

 

[CT Styles]

I think it's pretty obvious it's the draft. If it's not then hopefully some midcarders/uppers can get some good pushes, like Hardy's one, well one he was meant to have. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that what Vince did to begin the 'Attitude Era'? Push people like Morrison, MVP, CM Punk(Should cash in soon) and all the other up and comers because Orton/HHH is shit and I'm pretty sure it's been done. Put Orton back in his 'Legend Killer' 'gimmick' or have him feud with an up and comer and eventually put him over. I would love an Orton/Morrison feud or Orton/Punk. Get Triple H in a faction or something to get him out of the way for the up and comers. Basically what the WWE needs, is a big transition period.

 

[LKP]

The wwe needs to make ecw a little bit more interesting. Yes it might be taped before raw before long instead of heat. Noble palumbo dykstera mark henry and supercrazy added to ecw should make it a little bit more better. Yes you say most of those names are lower card talent? But kenny has potential, henry has power and an ecw unstoppable champion could do him well. Noble can put on 5*matches with supercrazy. Palumbo can be the sneaky heel who beats up the small faces. I mean take morrison, chavo and dreamer off ecw and replace them with the ones i mentoined and it will be better. It may the star power but u can push people and refresh their career. If you get stuck put rey on ecw he belongs there. Smackdowna nd raw shoudl swap around the world titles and champions. Ic title and wwe title to smackdown and us title and world title to raw. Matt and taker on raw and hhh and jericho on smackdown sounds good to me. Yeah throw a few mid carders around but keep your base.

Carlito and kennedy on smackdown should be the best career move. Swap them for finlay and mvp and there you go a good new roster of feuds. And plus shane should be the general manager of raw making the twenner gm job enjoyable.

 

[C4]

If they're going to go over with the draft then they should come up with something intelligent and unique with major stars switching rosters from all over Smackdown, RAW and even ECW should be involved more and should get better talent, like Cena and Triple H being drafted to ECW and in return Tommy Dreamer and Balls Mahoney come to RAW and indulge in a main event rivalry, that would shake things up... :shifty:

 

[CT Styles]

like Cena and Triple H being drafted to ECW

Oh god.

 

[imported_Lucky]

If they're going to go over with the draft then they should come up with something intelligent and unique with major stars switching rosters from all over Smackdown, RAW and even ECW should be involved more and should get better talent, like Cena and Triple H being drafted to ECW and in return Tommy Dreamer and Balls Mahoney come to RAW and indulge in a main event rivalry, that would shake things up... :shifty:

that'll never happen for two reasons
a. HHH would never go to ECW, ehh Cena might
b. Balls Mahoney was released

 

[C4]

You people think I'm serious about getting Cena and Triple H on ECW? :shocking:

But really, if they want to keep ECW alive for the coming years even with CM Punk leaving for RAW then they should get at least some major superstars for ECW, like Kennedy and JBL or something similar to that taste!

 

[Montana]

Here's an idea: Make ALL (not only the World titles all) your championships mean something. Stop boring us with the same matches over and over again, create some interesting angles that have a reasonable blowoff. Bottom line is, WWE has sucked since the end of the Attitude era, they need to figure out how to re-capture that magic again.

Make the belts mean something? I don't understand. Look how great Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly look as tag champs? Chris Jericho holds the IC belt, so it must have some meaning. Same with Matt hardy....he's fueding with....aaaa..... And Kane is the ECW champ, he won the belt in like 8 seconds and since has.....

I think the wwe is paying now, for their faults since 2002. Its not fair to blame the current product, but i'd say 2005 was a crap year. I think now we are starting to see some of the effects of it. It didn't seem like much then, but their change in mindstate hurt them. The whole "We tell the fans what they want" and as late, they are thinking...hmmm maybe we should have listened to the fans.

 

[TheAnswer]

Just get rid of the brand extension. Let it go back to the old days and have people on all the shows and have all new interesting feuds.

 

[OsamaHussian]

Best way to shake things up would be to fire Steph from creative, but Vince won't do it because he'd have to admit he was wrong to give her the job in the first place, his ego won't allow that.

Another way to "Shake things up" is to cut some of the PPVs (like One Night Stand & Cyber Sunday) but Vinnie Mac makes money off of them so it's unlikely that happens.

And please lose the backstage "acting" segments. They're awful and painful to watch. Simple interviews are just as effective, if not better.

 

[Qwake]

To keep ECW alive I would send JBL and Big Show there, they have no reason to be on the other shows. The also don't need to stay there for the WWE or World title because they have already won it before...

But screw ECW let it die??? :crazy:

 

[xtremebadass]

First and foremost, the main reason for this draft is Undertaker. I think there's a lot of heat on him rating wise. He is supposed to pull the majority of the audience as champion, but the ratings plummet. So I think Edge wins the TLC and Taker leaves SD, out of Vickie's way, then heads to Raw in the draft. Only logical reason, Taker is burned out on SD IMO, SmackDown just isn't doing it for Undertaker anymore.

I think Orton and Umaga to SmackDown would do it, or Umaga and HBK. HBK and Batista could have a complete SD rivalry for the World title, now that would be crazy. I could see that as the WMXXV main event.

 

[Evil Austin]

yes I Have Figured It Out I Know What Is Going To Shake Up The Wwe!

The Wwe Are Going To Bring Big Daddy V Back And When He Steps In The Ring The Whole Place Shakes... Yes, That Must Be It.

 

[OsamaHussian]

The problem with WWE is you're going to run out of fresh matches sooner or later..So start pushing other guys like MVP and CM Punk to the next level (known as the main-event)

Look at the 1980s for example and see if the same sports entertainment philosophy had been applied to the booking of Flair/Steamboat from 1989. If they had been wrestling each other every other week, would we have cared as much about those 3 matches they had? Probably not.

This is why feuds like Triple H/Orton are meaningless now-a-days, there's always interaction between the two. Having less PPVs would also help...Yes, Vince will lose some money early on, but for the big PPVs, he'd end up making more money because people would actually be interested in them...But as history shows, Vince always goes to the same things when he panics..More celebrity appearances, more appearances by popular ex-wrestlers, major pushes for really big guys and most importantly more McMahon(s) on TV.

I'm thinking we can all look forward to The Great Khali managed by Shane McMahon becoming WWE Champion and feuding with Stone Cold Steve Austin.


I love WWE and I wish they would improve their product and start doing some 'fresh' things, but until I actually see it happen I refuse to believe it. A draft isn't going to solve all your problems.