Pros and cons of WWE Raw going 3 hours permanently?
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KillaCham
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As some of you may or may not know, 3 hours is going to be Monday Night RAW's new permanent running time beginning at the end of July on Raw's 1,000th episode. Let's come up with a few way they can properly utilize this extra hour each week, as well as a few reasons how it could hurt the entire brand. Here's what I got:
Pros:
-This could help use guys like Ziggler, Rhodes, Truth and Kingston more meaningfully, potentially rejuvenate the tag division, and maybe the return of the Cruiserweight division?
-Smackdown Superstars getting more air time. With brand separation continuing to fade (there wasn't even a WWE draft this year) and with Smackdown! being about 40 minutes of RAW highlights every week, this would potentially allow more people from that brand to get air time.
Cons:
-Can get exhausting
-May lead to more commercials, more product placement, more tired crowds and more DVR recording (especially since a thug already has 110 episodes of The Parkers on his ? )
-PPVs will now need to step their game up, since we will now be essentially seeing a program which is free and longer than the PPVs they charge $50 for. But this can be a pro too depending on how you look at it.
Of course some of this ? may be wishful thinking or jumping the gun... but I'm leaning more toward the pro column than the cons for now.
Pros:
-This could help use guys like Ziggler, Rhodes, Truth and Kingston more meaningfully, potentially rejuvenate the tag division, and maybe the return of the Cruiserweight division?
-Smackdown Superstars getting more air time. With brand separation continuing to fade (there wasn't even a WWE draft this year) and with Smackdown! being about 40 minutes of RAW highlights every week, this would potentially allow more people from that brand to get air time.
Cons:
-Can get exhausting
-May lead to more commercials, more product placement, more tired crowds and more DVR recording (especially since a thug already has 110 episodes of The Parkers on his ? )
-PPVs will now need to step their game up, since we will now be essentially seeing a program which is free and longer than the PPVs they charge $50 for. But this can be a pro too depending on how you look at it.
Of course some of this ? may be wishful thinking or jumping the gun... but I'm leaning more toward the pro column than the cons for now.
Comments
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these ? decide to go 3 hours in the summer time knowing lil kids and folks are outside
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At 9/10PM at night though?dalyricalbandit wrote: »these ? decide to go 3 hours in the summer time knowing lil kids and folks are outside
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dalyricalbandit wrote: »these ? decide to go 3 hours in the summer time knowing lil kids and folks are outside
You sound surprised, it is the same guys that put Smackdown on Fridays when people are out -
Pros: more air time for feuds, quality matches, pushing more talent etc (but that's a ? ' long shot)
Cons: boring promos, squash matches, Vignettes, dance-offs, contests etc
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Cons
longer raw and smackdown rewinds
Longer Cena promos
More airtime for corny ? like John Lo
Watch them not use that extra time right to push younger talent
More WWE make a wish commercial time
More Commercial time
oversaturating the market
Pros
Longer Y2J,Punk,db,cody,ziggler etc matches hopefully.
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Lol as ? up as it may sound.. those Make A Wish commercial times be outta control.dalyricalbandit wrote: »More WWE make a wish commercial time -
KillaCham.-THE ELITE wrote: »
At 9/10PM at night though?dalyricalbandit wrote: »these ? decide to go 3 hours in the summer time knowing lil kids and folks are outside
wont it be from 8-11?
and u be surprised at these lil ? out at that time -
KillaCham.-THE ELITE wrote: »
Lol as ? up as it may sound.. those Make A Wish commercial times be outta control.dalyricalbandit wrote: »More WWE make a wish commercial time
man they over do it with them ? -
Those commercials are the reason you won't see Cena as a heel, he will be face until he dies.
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PROS
-More money for WWE
CONS
-Less Entertaining, more milking to fill the time slot -
WWE Creative isnt good enough to put on a show for 3 hours.
They have the talent but not the brains -
I see nothing good coming out of Raw going three hours
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three hours can save WWE but more then likely this ? will ? whats ever left. This ? kiddie era is dreadful. I dont wanna see ? kids dancing in the ring with naomi, i just wanna see that ass. Parents need to tell there kids to go there ass to sleep a 8 pm anyway. WWE been softer then drake belly lately though. ? is corny as Fritos.
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3 hour shows that they had on recently, is just nothing but filler. You might get some 30 minute wrestling main event matches like TLC or HIAC. But really it'll be more face time for establish wrestlers.
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wwe struggles putting on a decent 2 hour show
3 hour shows will be unbearable -
Pros: None
Cons: Cena doin 1 hour promos -
Damn, just as long (or longer) than an NBA game...haha
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*double post*
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It's all good until football season starts
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the first 40 mins... John L Big show and Cena talking talking talking talking talking......
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i think the production value will go up, they're documentaries are GOAT, the promos leading up to events are GOAT....
in order to have quality television for 3 hours, they're going to have to step their weekly production up to this level.... -
vince just see's $$$$...
another question is what happens to dark matches will they be aired? -
Brodus clay gunna dance for an hour
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Id would just like for them to have some legit title matches once a week...
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all i think of when i see 3 hour RAW is more promos
jus like back in the day when RAW and Nitro would open up with 15-30 minute segments of guys talkin in the middle of the ring
