3 things

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You can do 3 things to improve WWE, & 3 things to improve TNA..Here's the catch though: You can't shut anything down, or fire anyone...What do you do?

When you say you can't shut anything down do you mean you can't unify Titles coz thats like shuting down a title

WWE- separate brand ppvs, more wrestling during shows, longer term planning

TNA- greater emphasis on x-division, more tag teams to reinforce the division, clearer and more prolonged face/heel title feuds

WWE - Bring back hardcore title, bring back cruiser weight title, push tag team division with actual tag teams.

TNA - 6 sided ring, less gimmicks, move away from impact zone & tour the show.

wwe - less titles , less ppv and judge on wrestling ability not their look or how they promo

tna - x division , 6 sided ring back and push younger talent

the-gaffer wrote:When you say you can't shut anything down do you mean you can't unify Titles coz thats like shuting down a title

No I'd say that would be fine.

WWE-
Create a genuine contender for John Cena to wrestle.
Have seperate brand PPVs.
Push CM Punk!!!!!

TNA-
Put less emphasis on the older guys.
Stop having a 'big' reveal every other week.
Leave the iMPACT zone.

WWE - Get proper Tag teams again,
Brand Specific PPV's,
Let Wrestlers be themselves (no daft names, not generic looks, not having to Wrestle the WWE Way)

TNA -
Leave Impact Zone,
Push the X-Division back as the top attraction,
Stop constant face/heel turns.

WWE: More wrestling with longer term billing/feuds, bring back cruiserweight/light heavyweight, separate brand PPV's.

TNA: bring back old X Division, move away from the Impact zone and tour, better writing of story lines.

The WWE:

1 - I'd make SmackDown completely different in terms of talent and Titles as well as the overall look of the place, strip it down

2 - Single Brand PPV's would also help re-establish the undercard

3 - I'd like to see the WWE sell RAW and SD! as seperate entities and have no talent show up on other shows, I'd also like to see RAW/SD actively try and sign talent who run 'out of contract' on the other brands, they could use wwe.com to push these stories

Impact Wrestling:

1 - leave the impact zone

2 - less on screen authority figures

3 - Gave Bobby Roode the main event push he deserves

WWE:
- Single brand PPV's (but not as an excuse to hold 24 PPV's per year)
- Cruiserweight / LH division
- Push the guys with the best technical skills and mic skills as well as those with marketability

TNA:
- Leave Impact Zone / tour the product
- Focus on original talent as opposed to WWE has beens
- Move Hogan to an off-screen role

WWE:
- Not have title changes every few weeks, build up fueds
- Cruiserweight or Light heavyweight
- Get a decent Tag team Division again
TNA:
- Leave Impact Zone and Tour
- Use original talent as opposed to older wrestlers
- More focus on tag team and X division

WWE:
- Raw and SD as single brands no cross brand appearances
- Better build up to fueds
- Slower build up to main event
TNA:
- Leave Impact Zone and Tour
- Use talent correctly build new stars
- Move russo to a job where he has no input to creative

Move russo to a job where he has no input to creative

But isn't that all he can do? He's a creative writer. I assume it's your way of getting around the "no firing" rule. :P

invincibleILeak (CL-6WF) wrote:

Move russo to a job where he has no input to creative

But isn't that all he can do? He's a creative writer. I assume it's your way of getting around the "no firing" rule. :P

Your right! maybe give him an on screen role and let dreamer or someone take him apart in a hardcore match write him off screen until his contract expires! easy!

Russo can be alright, wasn't he a major part of the creative team during some of the best years of the Attitude era? Maybe he's just hit and miss, which isn't that bad if you can just block the misses.

invincibleILeak (CL-6WF) wrote:Russo can be alright, wasn't he a major part of the creative team during some of the best years of the Attitude era? Maybe he's just hit and miss, which isn't that bad if you can just block the misses.

Just far too many misses! look at his time in wcw!

goldustismyhero wrote:

invincibleILeak (CL-6WF) wrote:Russo can be alright, wasn't he a major part of the creative team during some of the best years of the Attitude era? Maybe he's just hit and miss, which isn't that bad if you can just block the misses.

Just far too many misses! look at his time in wcw!

That's why you just need somebody to filter him.

He had that in the form of vinny mac in the 'e which is why he did well there!

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You don't need to get rid of him, just give him a filter.

Just need somebody to filter him - thats just BS nonsense thats not even original to be honest, just claptrap thats been regurgitated by Russo apologists for the last 10 years, wheres the logic in having someone as the head booker but constantly needs to be filtered!?!

Lets shoot from the hip, Russo tapped into a nichè in the market in 96 and for the next two years got things over, before 96 and after 98 he was never able to replicate that success, he was most successful when Wrestlers where given more freedom than ever before with their character, his greatest success is/was Goldust but that was down to Dustin Rhodes dedication to the role

WWE

Make people Champions on ability, not marketing potential.
Bring back KOTR as a proper competition, ending in a PPV with a Championship Match in the main event of the next PPV, not a throwaway match on RAW or Smackdown.
Seperate brand PPV's

TNA

Stop with the random Heel and Face turns
Give A LOT!!!!!! of the airtime and spot light back to the TNA originals.
End the next PPV with Hogan, Russo and Bischoff taking a bullet in the head. Technically they aren't getting fired

the-gaffer wrote:Just need somebody to filter him - thats just BS nonsense thats not even original to be honest, just claptrap thats been regurgitated by Russo apologists for the last 10 years, wheres the logic in having someone as the head booker but constantly needs to be filtered!?!

Surely all bookers are filtered in some way anyway? I would hope that just because somebody is head booker wouldn't mean that they make all the booking decisions.

The head booker part should be the give away, while they should be open to constructive criticism if their job is head booker their booking methods as a whole should be trusted, if someone in that position then needs filtered it then becomes obvious they aren't doing the job correctly!

I cant believe some people on here want to see the TNA 6 sided ring again. That was the biggest monstrosity professional wrestilng has ever seen. It was awful!!!

If I can't fire people, can I at least get them murdered?

the-gaffer wrote:Lets shoot from the hip, Russo tapped into a nichè in the market in 96 and for the next two years got things over, before 96 and after 98 he was never able to replicate that success, he was most successful when Wrestlers where given more freedom than ever before with their character, his greatest success is/was Goldust but that was down to Dustin Rhodes dedication to the role

I don't think Goldust was a Russo creation; he debuted in late 1995, before Russo was part of the creative team. While Goldust seems like an obvious Attitude Era Russo gimmick, he was actually a McMahon idea back when the company was still pretty PG (hence why they didn't push the gay aspect too much and left the character very ambiguous).

I'd also question how much of a success Goldust was. Russo had far more success working with Austin, Rock, Undertaker, Kane and Foley to various degrees, and even Sable was a bigger star than Goldust at their peaks (no pun intended).