WS End Of The Year Awards Worst TV Show

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Worst TV Show

  • Raw

    Votes: 5 33.3%
  • SD Live

    Votes: 4 26.7%
  • Impact

    Votes: 6 40.0%

  • Total voters
    15
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Yeah nah, shit on WWE all you want but if Impact ran as a main WWE show, it would be ripped to shreds. I like Impact but it's clearly a b-grade show with a bunch of has-beens and a few useful future talents. Considering this they do pretty decently but the show just can't compare to WWE shows.

AEW shits on dubdub's two A-shows, though.

Can't agree with you at all on this.

Regardless of how you view Impact's roster, the show is much more compelling in my opinion. It's not a barrage of catch phrases and branding. You don't have robotic promo after robotic promo. You've got long term storylines. You've got a bit of everything from a product standpoint... whether you want sports entertainment, strong style, hardcore, high flying, women's wrestling, risque programming. You never know what you'll see or hear. They really have the gloves off, and that's something a lot of fans wish they could get from WWE.

I'm no WWE hater either. That's just me calling it how I see it. Raw and Smackdown are largely stale and formulaic, with a few glimpses of greatness here and there.

All that aside, I think your assessment of the roster is off base too. Even wrestlers you could call has-beens, such as RVD, are doing some of the best work of their careers right now. And it's not like RVD, Rhyno or Johnny Swinger are in the World Title picture. Impact has a boat load of great talents in their prime right now. Sami, Tessa, Moose, Daga, Elgin, TJP, Edwards, Swann, Mack, The North, The Rascalz, Jordynne, Ace Austin, so on and so forth... Their product is richer with fresh talents doing exciting stuff than WWE's main roster is.
 
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Can't agree with you at all on this.

Regardless of how you view Impact's roster, the show is much more compelling in my opinion. It's not a barrage of catch phrases and branding. You don't have robotic promo after robotic promo. You've got long term storylines. You've got a bit of everything from a product standpoint... whether you want sports entertainment, strong style, hardcore, high flying, women's wrestling, risque programming. You never know what you'll see or hear. They really have the gloves off, and that's something a lot of fans wish they could get from WWE.

I'm no WWE hater either. That's just me calling it how I see it. Raw and Smackdown are largely stale and formulaic, with a few glimpses of greatness here and there.

All that aside, I think your assessment of the roster is off base too. Even wrestlers you could call has-beens, such as RVD, are doing some of the best work of their careers right now. And it's not like RVD, Rhyno or Johnny Swinger are in the World Title picture. Impact has a boat load of great talents in their prime right now. Sami, Tessa, Moose, Daga, Elgin, TJP, Edwards, Swann, Mack, The North, The Rascalz, Jordynne, Ace Austin, so on and so forth... Their product is richer with fresh talents doing exciting stuff than WWE's main roster is.
I get what you're saying, and I don't thoroughly disagree either.

I just feel like Impact feel like they're "trying harder" but at times it feels quite amateurish and raw.

A lot of this is down to Impact just not having the same financial muscle as WWE to improve its production values and the like. But I agree that there is a lot of exciting talent - I think it's a matter of time before Sami gets picked up by a WWE or AEW, and Jordynne will probably see the same have sooner rather than later.

I'm by no means a WWE mark or an Impact hater, but I think that we judge WWE based upon WWE standards (ie the biggest promotion in the world) and Impact by Impact standards. And by those standards, Impact is definitely on the up, and WWE the down. But play one show after the other and you'll see that WWE is still putting on a more polished product - even if they're not taking as many risks.
 

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I get what you're saying, and I don't thoroughly disagree either.

I just feel like Impact feel like they're "trying harder" but at times it feels quite amateurish and raw.

A lot of this is down to Impact just not having the same financial muscle as WWE to improve its production values and the like. But I agree that there is a lot of exciting talent - I think it's a matter of time before Sami gets picked up by a WWE or AEW, and Jordynne will probably see the same have sooner rather than later.

I'm by no means a WWE mark or an Impact hater, but I think that we judge WWE based upon WWE standards (ie the biggest promotion in the world) and Impact by Impact standards. And by those standards, Impact is definitely on the up, and WWE the down. But play one show after the other and you'll see that WWE is still putting on a more polished product - even if they're not taking as many risks.
Polish in wrestling is not exactly a good thing to me. In fact... I prefer a rawness over a highly sanitized and precise product.

All a matter of preference and perspective, I suppose. Bottom line to me though is if I had to choose between watching Impact or Raw or Smackdown, it's an easy choice for me... I'm going Impact. Now NXT or Dynamite? Or even a main roster PPV? That's a different story.
 

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Yeah fair enough. If I choose one, it's WWE easily. But I enjoy watching both. So eh. NXT and AEW over both, though.
 

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Impact loses just off the That 70s show ripoff vignettes.,.....Rascals can't play for for shit.
 

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I have to assume a lot of people who voted for Impact didn't watch it.

SD in the final two months alone nailed it as the worst show.

EC and I will get Impact from worst to best in 2020!
 
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Sami being "talented" :TI:
 
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